SWOT’s interactive map, hosted by OBIS-SEAMAP, represents the individual work of hundreds of SWOT Team members around the world. To date, it is the most comprehensive global leatherback, loggerhead, hawksbill, flatback, olive ridley and Kemp’s ridley nesting data in existence, and will eventually encompass data aggregation for all seven species of sea turtles.
In addition to collating global nesting abundance and distribution information, SWOT is also working to include other types of information, including in-water distributions and genetic stock delineations. Furthermore, SWOT is determining recommendations for monitoring effort schemes that will allow for long-term nesting abundance and trend estimates for regional and global populations of sea turtle species. With these advances, SWOT continues to expand its role as a global clearinghouse for sea turtle data and monitoring.
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