• Hawksbills depend on highly vegetated coastlines for nesting. • Mangroves provide critical habitat for hawksbills and can lead to declining populations if destroyed or fragmented.

• Challenges associated with reconciling U.S. organizational policies regarding accounting procedures and insurance requirements with on-the-ground logistics and the provision of services to facilitate in-water monitoring.

• Ambitious proposals that depend on co-leadership from government fisheries science agencies are prone to political disruption. Importance of developing legislation that effectively regulates coastal development so it does not negatively impact nesting and juvenile hawksbill behavior.

• Importance of eliminating irresponsible and illegal fishing practices, particularly blast fishing.

• Direct payments for hawksbill egg protection create socio-economic benefits and encourage “reciprocal wellbeing” between local residents and nesting hawksbills. • Importance of protecting coastal vegetation located within 200 meters of high tide mark for hawksbill nesting habitat.

· PV is an easy and accessible medium for people of all literacy levels. Drawing rather than writing is emphasized. · PV is immediate and powerful and people feel excited to see themselves on film and share their story or idea. · PV amplifies people’s voices and brings them to life for others in a powerful visual medium. PV empowers a group or community and allows them to communicate their ideas directly to decision-makers and/or other groups and communities. · Strong facilitation skills are needed to help participants to develop the storyboard for the video. · Participants need to be trained in techniques to capture good quality video and sound, as well as in basic interviewing techniques. · Capturing good quality sound is challenging in noisy outside or public environments and a clip on microphone is essential. · Although the editing decisions are made by participants, help from a professional editor is useful in finalizing the video.

• Various strategies are needed to mobilize and engage stakeholders. • The P3DM methodology must include facilitated sessions to improve understanding of the basic concepts of climate change and to analyse the impacts of climate change on their livelihoods. This facilitates analysis of impacts and recommendations for policy and action. It also supports civil society engagement in climate change vulnerability assessment and planning. · Model building is very time intensive for facilitators as well as participants. The process can take anywhere from 5-15 consecutive days depending on the scale of the area and the number of participants being targeted.

Importance of acquiring good data to inform decision-making. Ambitious timelines are prone to delay due to social, political, and economic reasons.

Essential to create a commercial market for high-quality seafood; requires diverse partnerships and creative marketing strategies to attract consumers and retailers.

We source only resilient species from these fisherman.