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Tropical Coasts
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may not have had sufficient time to
focus on biodiversity and fisheries
concerns specific to Sulu-Sulawesi
Seas, the Tri-National Committee
opens up new opportunities to discuss
and address such matters, including
for example:
a. The protection of the sea turtles
beyond what the Philippine-
Malaysia Joint Management
Committee for the Turtle Islands
Heritage Protected Area can
address;
b. A sea turtle corridor that
encompasses northeastern
Sabah, Malaysia, the Turtle Islands
(jointly owned by Malaysia
and Philippines), and Eastern
Kalimantan, Indonesia, where
major nesting populations of
green and hawksbill turtles in
Southeast Asia are located;
c. Possibilities for transborder
enforcement to address illegal
wildlife trade and illegal,
unreported and unregulated (IUU)
fishing; and
d. Pursuit of joint projects, such
as the development of the GEF-
International Waters (IW) project
on the Sulu-Celebes Sea Large
Marine Ecosystem and Adjacent
Area Sustainable Fisheries
Management Project under the
CTI Programme for Small Pelagic
Fisheries.
The Tri-National Committee also
has the potential to serve as a
vehicle to elevate SSME issues and
accomplishments to broader platforms
and to generate support for ECP
implementation in the ASEAN Working
Group on Nature Conservation and
Biodiversity, the ASEAN Working
Group on Coastal and Marine
Environment, and the ASEAN Senior
Officials for the Environment (which
recognized the Tri-National initiative
in 2004); and the Natural Resource
Development Cluster of BIMP-EAGA
(which endorsed in its December
2007 meeting the proposal to develop
a Sulu-Sulawesi small pelagics
management project for submission
to GEF).