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The world is facing severe challenges. Billions of people around the world are suffering the consequences of the climate emergency, food and water insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic. Ecosystems are an indispensable ally as we meet these challenges. Protecting them and managing their resources in a sustainable manner is essential. But just increasing the protection and sustainable management of our remaining natural landscapes and oceans will not be enough, the planet's degraded ecosystems and the huge benefits that they provide must also be restored.

TREDS is a research database for marine turtles.

Quantify the effect of seawater application on incubation green turtle clutches and determine best methods.

Safeguard the hawksbill turtle from extinction and so they are no longer traded for trade. Tools to track the tortoiseshell trade and turtles most at risk: build and advance traceability knowledge and technologies, coordinate access to expand the bank of genetic data, train in-country and embed as common practice.

New Caledonia has a major tole to play in the conservation of marine turtles in the South Pacific.

We see a future where generations of Pacific Island people will have choices about how they use and interact with sea turtles.

Assess and characterized fishery bycatch research by catch reduction technologies in coastal and pelagic fisheries, population assessments and wildlife trafficking. Pacific leatherback sea turtles population assessment and threat reduction

Multiple turtle species, widely distributed and poorly studies with some exceptions. Some species are ocean wanderers (eg leatherbacks) others are more sedentary (eg hawksbills)