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World Status, Exploitation and Trade - WIDECAST

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MAURITIUS AND DEPENDENCIESTable 138. Nesting sites, track, numbers observed in the St Br<strong>and</strong>onshoals, 13 Nov-3 Dec 1971, with comments on nesting; data from Hughes (1976b)Isl<strong>and</strong>Number of trades Commentssome old tracks nesting formerly occurred, now veryrarea little-visited reserve, densenestingprobably formerly dense nesting, butheavily exploitedmany old vegetated craters thusprobably once dense nestingprobably recovering from pastexploitation by guano workersassumed similar to Pearllarge human population, turtlesprobably almost extirpated

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