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Caribbean Turtles Said To Be Threatend
Topic Started: Jun 14 2007, 10:36 PM (233 Views)
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Caribbean Turtles Said To Be Threatend by Catches, Trade
June 13, 2007 — By Reuters

THE HAGUE -- Turtles in the Caribbean are under threat from over-fishing and illegal trade, with almost all eggs laid in Guatemala taken by humans, a wildlife trade monitoring network said on Tuesday.

Traffic, comprising the WWF conservation group and the World Conservation Union, urged governments in the region to set tighter limits on catches to help safeguard the region's six species of turtles.

"Turtles may be adequately protected in some waters, but then travel into areas where they are at risk from unmanaged or illegal take," said Steven Broad, Traffic's Executive Director.

"Caribbean nations need to improve their cooperation to manage and conserve the region's turtles," he said in a statement issued on the sidelines of a U.N. Conference on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in The Hague.

Traffic said overexploitation was a threat to the survival of the region's turtles, targeted for their shells, meat and eggs that are laid on beaches.

All six species in the region are classified as endangered or critically endangered. "In Guatemala, virtually every turtle egg laid is collected for human consumption," Traffic said. By contrast, in Costa Rica, most eggs in trade were from a well-managed programme operated at Ostional on the Pacific coast.

It also said once vast breeding colonies of green turtles in the Cayman Islands had all but vanished.

http://www.enn.com/todays-news/12947
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Trinidad is the nesting place of the Leatherback Turtles - the largest, some weighing a ton. The slaughter of these turtles are down due to conservation efforts of volunteers.


http://www.responsibletravel.com/Trip/Trip100860.htm
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