ProTECTOR Coordinating Sea Turtle Research and Conservation in Honduras

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ProTECTOR Coordinating Sea Turtle Research and Conservation in Honduras Stephen G. Dunbar 1,2,3 and Lidia Salinas 1,3,4 1 Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach and Research (ProTECTOR), Inc. Colton, CA 92324 2 Department of Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350 3 Turtle Awareness and Protection Studies (TAPS), Oak Ridge, Roatan, Honduras 4 Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach and Research, Honduras (ProTECTOR), Tegucigalpa, Honduras *sdunbar@llu.edu

INTRODUCTION Sea turtles of the Caribbean highly threatened. Decline attributed to: habitat degradation increasing marine pollution removal of eggs and females from nesting beaches capture of juveniles from feeding grounds for consumption entanglement in commercial and artisanal nets

INTRODUCTION Lack of awareness and conservation efforts partly due to large gap in information available on any aspect of sea turtle biology, ecology, life history in Honduras. De Rochefort (1666) reported on plentiful hawksbills on the islands in Gulf of Honduras. Hodgson (1822), stated exports from the coast of Cen. Am. equated to ~3400 hawksbills/yr. Parsons (1972) reports tortoiseshell as important trade item from the region, including Miskito area in 1722. Davidson (1979) reports that both hawksbills and greens had been plentiful sources of shells and food for at least three centuries, but now are only caught occasionally.

INTRODUCTION Honduras is conspicuously absent from reports, such as: Meylan & Donnelly (1999) Status Justification MTSG (2004) Global Status Assessment Mast (2005) State of the World s Seat Turtles.

Roatan, Honduras One of three, main islands of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef system.

Roatan, Honduras Threats to turtles here include: Commercial fishing fleets Artisanal fishers. Increasing beach and water pollution. Development and alteration of beach habitat.

Roatan, Honduras Oak Ridge

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ProTECTOR s Efforts

Future Projects 1. Satellite tagging of nesting females. 2. Mapping historical and current distributions of sea turtles throughout Honduras. 3. Health and heavy metal monitoring of wild-caught and nesting turtles. 4. Bycatch in artisanal and commercial fisheries. 5. Embryological development. 6. Pain perception studies. 7. Nesting beach and foraging area monitoring.

Current and Future Projects Utila Cuero y Salado Roatan Cayos Cochinos Barbareta Moquito Coast Punta Raton East Pac Hawksbills El Venado

Acknowledgements Department of Earth & Biological Sciences (LLU). Reef House Resort (ProTECTOR/TAPS). Lidia Salinas, ProTECTOR Country Coordinator. Programa Manejo Ambiental la Islas de la Bahia (PMAIB). US Fish & Wildlife Services National Fish and Wildlife; Ocean Foundation; ICAPO SWOT (CI) Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Conservation Grant. Karla Ventura, Edwin Cruz, Marinela Ferrera, Romeo and Connie Silvestri, Hybur Shipping. David Kirkwood, Leonardo Rodriguez, Lindsey Kelly and Sabine Dunbar assisted with field data collection. DIGEPESCA, SAG, Fernando Sotelo SERNA (Honduras) (Permits DGPA/005/2006 & DGPA/245/2006), LLU IACUC (Protocol OSR#86004). Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research (flipper tags). Nancy Blauers (BlauersArt,Inc.), April Sjoboen, Melissa Berube

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