World Status, Exploitation and Trade - WIDECAST

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe are indebted to a large number of people who have assisted in thepreparation of this report.In Cambridge, particular gratitude is due to Julie Gray who typed most ofthe first draft and dealt with its production, and to Veronica Greenwood whometiculously edited the final draft and incorporated many changes andcorrections. In addition, Wendy Coombes prepared the material onlegislation, and Rosina Abudulai and Sheila Millar also handled much of thetyping. Much of the legislation was listed for us by the lUCN EnvironmentalLaw Centre with the assistance of Fran?oise Burhenne-Gui Imin.Elsewhere, a large number of people have made vital contributions to thisreport, either by responding to questionnaires circulated on our behalf bythe CITES Secretariat, by entering into correspondence with us about turtlepopulations in different parts of the world, or by providing their commentson the draft text. Many supplied us with valuable unpublished data, or withcopies of their work. We hope that those involved will not be offended byappearing in the list below, it being impractical separately to specify thecontribution made by each.A good deal of the information utilised in this report was derived from work,specially commissioned for the purpose. The document prepared for us byJoop Schulz (expanding and updating his earlier report on Indonesia) wasinvaluable, and we are most grateful to Schulz for undertaking theconsultancy and to the authorities in Indonesia, notably staff of the PHPA,for making it possible. Similarly, we much appreciate the efforts of TomMilliken and H. Tokunaga in Japan, Peter Pritchard and the authorities inNew Caledonia, and J. and S. Frazier and the authorities in the Maldives.We are especially grateful to the Prefet of Reunion who made possibleLuxmoore's visit there and to Guy Lebrun and Bernard Bonnet, who assistedgreatly and who also made timely annotations to our preliminary draftcountry accounts for the Madagascar- Mascarencs region; also to Aban MarkerKabraj i and Abdul Latif Rao, who made arrangements for Groombr idge' s visitto Baluchistan, and to the Sind Wildlife Management Board (F. Firdous) for atour of the Karachi nest beaches. In the USA, Mike Weber, Mary AdeleDonnelly, Ginette Hemley, Andrea Gaski , Rod Mast, Karen Bjorndal, JeanneMortimer, Peter Pritchard, Sibille Hart and Fred Berry gave much assistance.We thank in particular Karen Bjorndal, Anne Meylan and Jeanne Mortimer ofthe IUCN-S3C Marine Turtle Specialist Group, and Stephen Edwards, for theirhelpful cuiiiments on the draft text, also Gren Lucas and Anne Mayo forco-ordinating further review.M.F. Ahmad, M. Al Deghaither, H. Al Ghandi, A.L. Al-Zaidan, A.C. Alcala,M. Andau, B. Andzouana, S. Atapattu, F.L.J. Baal, T. Barantarawa,L. Barratl , M. Barwani, A.B. Bejie, B.D. Bell, R.B. Bello, J. Berney,F.H. Berry, S. Bhaskar, K. Bjorndal, B. Bonnet, R.H. Boulon,L.D. Brongersma, H.R. Bullis, A. A. Burbidge, J. Burnett Herkes, P. Butler,T.M. Butynski , E.E. Bynoe , A. Cabral , J. Canin, E.H. Chan, M.K. Cheung,N. Clarke, J. A. Colman, W.J. Conley, K. Corbett, C. D'Auvcrgno, E. D'Souza,M. Dahman , A. Demetropoulos , S. Diake, H. Didi , B.C. Dioh, D. Ehrenfold,D. Elder, FAO, F. Fagotto, A.B. Fakhri , J.C. Finlayson, F. Firdous,B. Flores, N.B. Frazer, J. Frazier, S. Frazier, K.R. Freeman, P. Galcnon,571