WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Antigua and Barbuda.

This document presents the Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Antigua and Barbuda, which proposes a five-year national Sea Turtle Conservation Programme. This plan seeks to (1) to obtain comprehensive and accurate data on the distribution of turtle nesting and foraging habitat and (2) to promote the conservation and recovery of remaining sea turtle stocks. This plan suggests Antigua and Barbuda support international initiatives such as ratifying the SPAW Protocol to the UNEP Cartagena Convention.

WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for the British Virgin Islands.

This document presents the Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for the British Virgin Islands. The plan reviews a wide variety of solutions to stresses on sea turtles and includes a variety of recommendations ranging from environmental law enforcement to the passage of a strong Coast Conservation Management Act; as well as raised public awareness and the designation of protected coastal areas.

WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Barbados.

This document presents the Sea Turtle Recovery Plan for Barbados which supports the improvement of conservation legislation, law enforcement, coastal zone management, field research and public awareness campaigns. The Plan recommends Barbados to support multinational efforts aimed at the conservation and recovery of marine species such as sea turtles, by ratifying the Cartagena Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW Protocol).

WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for the Netherlands Antilles.

This document presents the Sea Turtle Recovery Plan for the Netherland Antilles. It summarizes the status of sea turtles and recommends solutions contemporary stresses they face. These recommendations include the drafting of regulatory guidelines, greater law enforcement and enhanced public awareness.

Tenth Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) in the Wider Caribbean Region - June 3 ,2019

The information note can be accessed here.

The Global Environment Facility-funded Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF IWEco) Project’s Third Regional Project Steering Committee Meeting (RPSC 3) will take place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 2nd – 4th April 2019.

Highlights in this issue include - Recommendations of the 8th SPAW STAC; launch of the CARI’MAM project; GCFI Session (5 - 9 November 2018); Coral Restoration Consortium, Managing the Sargassum outbreak in the Caribbean; Summary of Anguilla Workshop (4 - 7 February 2019); Honduras is our 17th Contracting Party; SPAW-RAC’s new location; Introducing new SPAW RAC colleagues

Highlights in this issue include:-

• 2018 Year in Review
• Safeguarding World Heritage Marine Sites from Marine Pollution
• Honduras becomes the 26th Country to ratify the Cartagena Convention
• Highlights From the Regional Activity Centres for the Pollution Protocol
• Global Environmental Facility Projects

Seventeenth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme and Fourteenth Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region. 

Haiti’s Canal De La Gonave is a unique marine ecosystem, with two underwater canyons that drop to over 10,000 feet.  This marine ecosystem is threatened by several factors:  pollution (e.g. marine debris), non-native species invasions (e.g.