The Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Trinidad and Tobago emphasises an integrated approach. Recommendations for specific conservation action on a wide variety of fronts are provided, including strengthening conservation legislation, expanding the system of actively managed and protected habitats, improving coastal zone management policies, promoting public aware-ness, strengthening community involvement in conservation and management, requiring stiffer penalties for infractions against environmental laws, identifying critical habitats at sea, and building capacity for population monitoring, including quantifying the distribution, abundance and trend of the annual nesting effort and quantifying residency and trends among foraging stocks.