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CEC Publishes Factual Record on the Effective Enforcement of Environmental Law Related to Submission SEM-20-001 (Loggerhead Turtle)
Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), 22 April 2024 — Today the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) published the factual record regarding submission SEM-20-001 (Loggerhead Turtle), filed on 17 December 2020 by the Mexican Center for Environmental Law A.C. (Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, Cemda) and the U.S.-based Center for Biological Diversity (“the Submitters”), in which it is asserted that Mexico was failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws with respect to conservation of the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in the Gulf of Ulloa, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
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