Witness the creation of OECD-Watch, the group addressing the OECD Guidelines, ECA Watch, addressing the ECA negotiations, and ICAPO, addressing the MAD process.
(44.) ICAPO defines its mission as seeking "to promote new test guidelines [that] fully incorporate alternative methods that can replace, reduce, and refine animal use (the 'Three Rs').
Recent exhaustive monitoring efforts along the Eastern Pacific, led by Iniciativa Carey del Pacifico Oriental (
ICAPO) through its network collected historical data (1982-2006) of the presence of hawksbill turtles in this region, identifying six countries with nesting sites, with El Salvador, Mexico and Costa Rica identified as the most important, and eight with in-water sightings, with major abundances in Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia.