The WWF is run at a local level by the following offices...
What we will do
Main Objectives: | |
1. | To set up the platform for the compilation and dissemination of travel route information about the trans-oceanic movements of leatherback turtles, for the design of measures to reduce by-catch mortality in Atlantic fisheries. |
2. | To start an international, trans-oceanic cooperation initiative, based on the study of travel routes of leatherbacks, that reaches out to governments, NGO´s and fisheries agencies in the Atlantic basin, for the effective conservation of this highly migratory marine species. |
Specific Objectives | |
1. | To set up an international team of collaborating agencies for the conservation of leatherback turtles, with affiliations to at least seven nations from the Atlantic basin |
2. | To track the movements of at least eight leatherback turtles, fitted with satellite radio-telemetry equipment on the Western and Eastern coast of the Atlantic, for at least seven months, starting in Panama, French Guiana, Uruguay and Gabon |
3. | To compile and disseminate the information about movements of leatherbacks in the Atlantic basin from this and previous studies in a GIS/Internet format useful for the design of by-catch reduction measures, and |
4. | To generate communications materials and press releases that call for international, trans-oceanic cooperation, for the effective conservation of highly migratory marine species, such as leatherback turtles. |