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Please continue to check this site for the final agenda, workshop descriptions and meeting announcements.
| Friday, January 27 |
| 10:00am | Registration |
| 3:00pm | Welcome |
| 3:15pm | Conference Presentations |
| Up to seven speakers will be invited to present on their work studying and protecting sea turtles. Selection of presenters will be made in mid-December and the final agenda will be released at that time. |
| 6:30pm | Dinner |
| 7:30pm | After-dinner presentations |
| This will be an informal presentation period for sharing movies, photos and stories. |
| Saturday, January 28 |
| 7:00am | Breakfast |
| 8:15am | Welcome and Community Introductions (Rodrigo Rangel, Coordinator, Grupo Tortuguero) |
| 8:30am | Community Presentations |
| 3:30pm | Presentations by approximately 25 communities from the Californias and the Sea of Cortez on their monitoring efforts over the past year. |
| Breaks and Lunch will be held within this period as well. |
| 3:30pm | Youth Programs |
| Presentations by various youth groups and youth programs on their efforts saving sea turtles throughout Northwest Mexico. |
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| 7:00pm | Celebration Dinner |
| Presentation of the "Don Manuel Orantes" award |
| Sunday, January 29 |
| 7:00am | Breakfast |
| 8:30-10:00am and 10:30-12:00pm | Workshops |
There will be two consecutive workshop sessions and a total of five workshops offered. Workshops will be confirmed by mid-December.
Additionally, it is our goal at this meeting to engage all members of the monitoring communities and in an attempt to include the next generation of sea turtle protectors we have planned separate activities and workshops for kids and youth, to run concurrently with the adult sessions. A final youth conference agenda will be released by mid-December.
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Preliminary Agenda