As per a new report, the Social Forestry Wing of the Kerala Forests and Wildlife Department is planning to develop a site specific plan for conservation of their turtles. They are developing it under the title `Green Partnership Program'.

Bransdon Corrie, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF), Social Forestry, said that the plan will be ready in just two weeks along with the requirements of different groups of local conservators. Input was being collected from different sources like sea turtle conservation efforts, researchers, and non-governmental organizations to give an end to their plans.

Dr. Corrie said that the main aim of their plan is to make a strong base for turtle conservation and to increase the capacity of the original citizens. All the challenges faced by the PCCF team were announced in a workshop organized by the Social Forestry Wing at Vanasree Forest Complex at Mathotam.

They told their difficulties in front of Forest official and conservation scientists in an event on Monday. The major concerns were indiscriminate construction, `illegal and unsustainable' fishing methods, use of `trawlers' and rampant coastal sand-mining.

Out of all the concerns raised in an event, the most important was the decline in the number of turtles, which was also raised in an event.