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GUADELOUPE AND DEPENDENCIESPOPULATION:Chelonia mydasNesting sites Nesting is reported at the following sites: Ilet a Fajout;Ilet 4 Caret; Plage Rain6e (Basse Terre) ; Ilet k Kahouanne; Plage de GrandeAnse near Deshaie (Basse Terre); Plage de Grande Anse near Trois Rivieres(Basse Terre); St Clair (Basse Terre); Plage Viard (Basse Terre); AnseBertrans (Grande Terre); Port Louis (Grand Terre); St Francois (GrandTerre); lies de la Petit Terre; Les Saintes; Ballet beach (Marie Galante);La Deserade; Long Bay (St Martin); Flat Island (St Martin); Anse de GrandeSaline (St Barthelemy) (Carr et al. . 1982; Meylan, 1983).Nesting numbers Bacon (1981) considered Green Turtle nesting to befrequent on Guadeloupe and its dependencies. Carr et al. (1982), however,noted informants* reports that only a few turtles nested on any given nighton any beach in Guadeloupe. Meylan (1983) noted that the frequency ofnesting by all marine turtle species on St Martin was apparently quite lowand that very little evidence of nesting was found during a survey on StBarthelemy, with the only nesting attributed by informants to the GreenTurtle being that of a single turtle that emerged at Anse de Grande Salinein 1978.Trends in nesting numbers There appears to have been a very definitedecline in turtle population levels on Guadeloupe; residents ofSt Barthelemy noted a decline in local turtle populations and sea turtlestocks at St Martin were considered to be depleted (Meylan, 1983). Turtlenesting on Guadeloupe has reportedly declined at beaches near Deshaies,Capesterre and St Francois, and to have ceased altogether on most of thewest coast of Basse Terre (Meylan, 1983).Nesting season April to September on Guadeloupe (Meylan, 1983).Foraging sites Meylan (1983) reported Green Turtle foraging in the GrandCul-de-Sac Marin near Peiti-Bourg and at Les Saintes and Marie Galante offGuadeloupe, and at Point du Bluff on St Martin. ECNAMP (1980, cited inMeylan, 1983) identified presumed Green Turtle foraging sites aroundSt Barthelemy at Anse du Gouverneur and Anse de Grande Saline on thesouthern coast, off the north-western peninsula near Columbier, and to thesouth-west of lie Fourche.POPULATION : Eretmochelys imbricataNesting sites Nesting is reported at the following sites: Ilet 4 Fajout;Ilet a Caret; Plage Ram^e (Basse Terre); Ilet a Kahouanne; Plage de GrandeAnse near Deshaie (Basse Terre); Plage de Grande Anse near Trois Rivieres(Basse Terre); St Clair (Basse Terre); Plage Viard (Basse Terre); AnseBertrans (Grande Terre); Port Louis (Grand Terre); St Francois (GrandTerre); lies de la Petit Terre; Les Saintes; Ballet beach (Marie Galante);La Deserade; Long Bay (St Martin); Flat Island (St Martin) (Carr et al ,1982; Meylan, 1983).Nesting numbers Bacon (1981) considered nesting to be frequent onGuadeloupe and its dependencies, although Meylan (1983) stated thatHawksbills did not appear to nest in any abundance on Guadeloupe. Reportsof incidental nesting at Flamand on St Barthelemy probably referred toHawksbills (Meylan, 1983).Trends in nesting numbers See C. mydas above.205