Cooperation key to saving Coral Triangle's green turtles

The Philippines is taking the lead in creating a transnational network of safe havens for green turtles in one of the species' most important habitatsConservationists recently took a major step forward in their efforts to protect green turtles in the Coral Triangle with the establishment of a 'turtle corridor' in the Sulu-Sulawesi Seascape, which encompasses the territorial waters of the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia and is one of the biodiversity hotspots of the Coral Triangle. The announcement was made at an event hosted by environmental organisation Conservation International at the 12th Conference of Parties of the Convention of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP 12), held last month in the Philippines. Continue reading...