{
  "id": "turtle-baseline-2016",
  "title": "What Cambodia’s turtle action plan records about historical sightings",
  "source_url": "https://data.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/dataset/297212c2-4bfd-4e4e-b7b1-8868adcc94cd/resource/bb37f60c-8f0e-4361-aba9-a28dd7dd6d8c/download/sea-turtle-action-plan_english_final_with-cover.pdf",
  "sha256": "b3adcdd4c72466315bc9401f2e2f0eed6d8787bc8006490162b7d297adb3f247",
  "paper_path": "docs/papers/turtle-baseline-2016.pdf",
  "total_pages": 31,
  "pages_text_examined": [
    3,
    4,
    5,
    6,
    7,
    8,
    9
  ],
  "figures_tables_visually_checked": [
    6,
    7
  ],
  "subjects": [
    "turtles"
  ],
  "places": [
    "koh-kong",
    "kampot-kep"
  ],
  "observation_dates": "2010 fisher survey and 2015 interviews recalling 2005–2015; action-plan period 2016–2026.",
  "human_verified": false,
  "formal_inclusion": null,
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "turtle-baseline-2016-events",
      "text": "The action plan reports 233 recalled turtle-sighting events from 120 participants across the four coastal provinces, covering 2005–2015. These are not 233 independently confirmed turtles.",
      "pdf_pages": [
        7
      ],
      "kind": "source-reported finding",
      "human_verified": false,
      "source_check": {
        "status": "checked_with_limits",
        "method": "adversarial source check",
        "date": "2026-09-30",
        "independent": false
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "turtle-baseline-2016-earlier",
      "text": "A 2010 survey of 66 fishers is reported as including green, hawksbill, olive ridley, loggerhead and leatherback turtles. Species identifications and sightings were interview reports.",
      "pdf_pages": [
        6
      ],
      "kind": "source-reported finding",
      "human_verified": false,
      "source_check": {
        "status": "checked_with_limits",
        "method": "adversarial source check",
        "date": "2026-09-30",
        "independent": false
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "turtle-baseline-2016-negative",
      "text": "The plan explicitly warns that the sighting map cannot provide an accurate estimate of species abundance.",
      "pdf_pages": [
        7
      ],
      "kind": "source-reported finding",
      "human_verified": false,
      "source_check": {
        "status": "checked_with_limits",
        "method": "adversarial source check",
        "date": "2026-09-30",
        "independent": false
      }
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "Historical interview evidence",
      "columns": [
        "Survey",
        "People",
        "What the record means"
      ],
      "rows": [
        [
          "2010",
          66,
          "Fishers reporting species sightings"
        ],
        [
          "2015",
          120,
          "Participants recalling 233 sighting events over 2005–2015"
        ]
      ],
      "pdf_pages": [
        6,
        7
      ],
      "interpretation": "Different surveys and recall periods; these totals are not a population time series."
    }
  ],
  "supplements": [],
  "components_not_examined": [
    "Underlying interview records and the full cited McNamara survey have not been reconciled in this account.",
    "Action-plan matrix, budget, legal appendix and Khmer edition remain outside this extraction."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "The map is historical interview evidence and does not locate current nesting or foraging populations.",
    "The figure caption cites McNamara et al. 2015 while the surrounding text cites 2016; the underlying report identity requires reconciliation.",
    "The plan period and proposed conservation targets do not demonstrate that the targets were achieved."
  ],
  "publication_date": "2016",
  "authors": "Ouk Vibol, Me’ira Mizrahi and Kate West / Fisheries Administration",
  "methods": "The action plan summarises earlier fisher interviews and historical records. Its 2015 sighting map aggregates recollections into grid sections across four coastal provinces; these are reported sighting events, not independently identified individual turtles.",
  "methods_pages": [
    6,
    7
  ],
  "review_status": "The historical distribution and habitat sections were examined. The full action matrix, budget, legal appendix and Khmer edition have not yet been reviewed.",
  "source_check": {
    "date": "2026-09-30",
    "method": "adversarial source check",
    "scope": "listed claims and cited source sections",
    "independent": false,
    "human_verified": false
  }
}