Recovery ObjectivesRecovery Objectives

Recovery Objectives

In the absence of detailed information about populations of marine turtles in Australia, this plan has adopted a threat- based approach. The premise is to reduce the likelihood that current threats will cause mortalities, or to modify activities to reduce the potential for future mortalities at all stages of a marine turtle’s life, and to ensure that traditional harvest of marine turtles by indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders is ecologically sustainable. The overall recovery objective is as follows.