Report by the Motupore Island Marine Biodiversity Unit

A Conservation International (CI) program with the Ayau people of Papua has proven successful at reducing the killing of Endangered green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in an important breeding habitat off the remote Raja Ampat Archipelago in Indonesia.

The residents of the low-lying Carteret Islands have the sad claim to be the planet’s first climate change refugees; either the sea level is rising or their island is sinking.