Gorontalo – A recent peer-review study estimated that about 100 million sharks are fished every year to satisfy a market for their fins, meat, and liver oil. More than half of shark species and their relatives are categorized as threatened or near threatened with extinction.
Furthermore, sea turtles are always been a popular food item, the hunt for turtles and their eggs is threatening their lives. The loss of sandy beaches, marine population and careless fishing methods also have added to the decline of their population.
With this daunting scenario, the Threated Species Working Group (TSWG) of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) is fixed on the development of a regional conservation plan for marine mammals, sea turtles, shark and rays during its 3rd Annual meeting in Gorontalo, Indonesia. Development partners such as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Conservation International (CI), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has joined the TSWG in this effort.
CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat Interim Executive Director Dr Hendra Yusran Siry noted that the planned regional conservation plan hopes to respond and align to Convention of Biological Diversity – Convention of Parties Convention of Parties as well as to Aichi Biodiversity Target where by 2020, the extinction of known threatened species has been prevented and their conservation status, particularly of those most in decline, has been improved and sustained. The IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species currently lists more than 19,000 species as being threatened globally.
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