Marine Turtle Newsletter 51:27, © 1990
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Marine Turtle Newsletter 51:27, © 1990
During the celebrations of World Environment Day on 5 June 1990 in Mexico City, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) honored 78 laureates from around the world by including them in "The Global 500: The Roll of Honour for Environmental Achievement". Among those selected was Milton M. Kaufmann, founder and coordinator for several years of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Recovery Team and Conservation Network (WIDECAST), an international non-government organization preparing sea turtle recovery and conservation plans for 28 Caribbean governments. Mr. Kaufmann has founded several other visionary organizations over the years, including Monitor Consortium-USA (a coalition of 33 wildlife conservation and animal welfare groups) and Monitor International (founded in 1978 for the worldwide protection of natural areas and endangered and threatened wildlife). For nearly a decade Monitor International served as the lead non-government organization working towards the adoption by Wider Caribbean governments of a Protocol to the UNEP Cartagena Convention concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife, a goal which was realized last January when plenipotentiaries from 13 governments adopted the comprehensive international agreement which will provide substantial regional protection for sea turtles and other threatened species. Source: compiled from laureate autobiographical data supplied to UNEP.