report on a seminar on turtle held in your school
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How do you gauge the successfulness of an environmental conference? If it is based on numbers of attendees, it would be hard to dispute the success of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Sea Turtle Conservation Network of the Californias held in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, from January 25-27, 2002. Each year the conference has taken place the last weekend in January in Loreto, and with over 150 attendees this year, participants have watched it grow to over three times its original size in 1999. This year's event, organized by WiLDCOAST and the Grupo Ecologista Antares and sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund – Mexico, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Ocean Planet Research, IUCN, the Sea of Cortez International Preservation Foundation, and the Blue Planet Marine Research Foundation, carried the title "Sea Turtle Conservation ~ The Next Generation." The fact that this title itself points to the future symbolizes the progress the Network has made to date in its efforts toward sea turtle preservation along the coastline of the Californias (California, Baja California, and Baja California Sur).
The Sea Turtle Conservation Network of the Californias is a web of local fisherman, students and academics, researchers, environmentalists, and concerned citizens who work in their local communities to combat the decimation of sea turtle populations along the coast of the Californias. The yearly meeting of the Network gives the group's participants the chance to review achievements, share strategies, develop future goals, and spread the message of sea turtle conservation in hope of slowing the annihilation of turtle populations along the coast of the Californias. The Sea Turtle Conservation Network of the Californias (Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias) was formed on January 23rd 1999 at the office of the non-profit Grupo Ecologista de Antares, A.C. (GEA) in Loreto, BCS, "to bring together individuals and organizations working for the recovery of Baja California's sea turtles, to share knowledge, discuss results and issues, plan projects and conduct workshops on basic field research techniques." WiLDCOAST, the California arm of the Network founded by Drs. Wallace J. Nichols and Serge Dedina in January of 2000, is a partnership-