NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):

Sea Turtles

Project Title: Protecting Leatherbacks with Time-Area Closures

Organization:

WIDECAST: Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network, Inc.

Project ID:

0310.11.023597

Award Amount:

$47864.00

Location:

Trinidad, located in the southern Caribbean, supports one of the 3 largest nesting colonies of leatherback sea turtles in the world, but sustains 3,000 gillnet entanglements.