The Leatherback Turtle is listed by the Internaional Union for Conservation of Nature Red List as a critically endangered species.It has a worldwide distribution that has experienced drastic declines in the Pacific during the past two decades.The Atlantic has been reported to hold approximately 70% of the Leatherback Turtle population.Nesting populations in the Caribbiean island are comparatively small and stable,and their protection becomes the more important as the species continue to be threatened by legal and illegal egg harvesting ,killing of nesting females for meat and oil,incidental capture in oceanic fisheries and oceanic polltion.