Five-Year (2000-2005) Assessment of The Implementation of The Protocol To The Cartagena Convention Concerning Specially Protected Areas And Wildlife (SPAW), With a Special Focus On Annex II Listed Sea Turtles
The Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention) and its Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) provide a unique framework, with pragmatic measures, through which nations are encouraged to work together to protect shared marine resources. In an effort to gauge the efficacy of the SPAW Protocol during the five years (2000-2005) since it entered into force, I conducted the first review of enabling legislation among the Protocol’s 12 Parties.