Even though eradicating unregulated exploitation of these resources cannot be fully achieved, efforts in management training, promoting environmental awareness and, equally important, streaming broad-based sources of revenues back to individuals and communities have, to some extent, promoted compliance among users, some of whom have committed themselves to protection (Troeng and Drews 2004). This was based on the realisation that economic factors, including the trade in turtle products, have been the most significant factors accounting for their decline, while other anthropogenic problems such as threats at nesting beaches, the opportunistic capture of turtles or harvesting of their eggs, fisheries by-catch associated with trawling operations, and threats from pollution are also seen as contributors to their declining populations (Muir 2005). Records indicate that at least 83 221 kg of raw shell wereexported between 1894and 1982.