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In 1947, Andres Herrera documented an estimated 40,000 Kemp’s ridleys nesting simultaneously in a single day at Rancho Nuevo, Mexico. Fourteen years later, scientists were shocked to see this phenomenon on tape because by then, Kemp’s numbers were reduced to approximately 6,000 animals in an entire year.
Read MoreOver the past two years, researchers around the world have contributed their time, energy, and scientific data to SWOT, in an effort to map the leatherback nesting beaches of the world with the best available information from the last complete nesting season in 2004.
Read MoreUrgency and limited resources have driven conservationists to be increasingly strategic in their focus, and setting priorities is critical for any effort, whether directed at a species, an ecosystem, or the Biosphere as a whole. In this article, conservationists lay out the top ten 10 conservation priorities for sea turtle conservation.
Read MoreUntil quite recently, very little was known of sea turtles’ lives in the sea, where females spend the vast majority of their lives and males their entire post-hatchling existence. But modern technology is changing all of that, helping us to unravel many of the critical natural history mysteries of sea turtles— the understanding of which will vastly aid our efforts to conserve them.
Read MoreWhat is the simplest way to destroy a sea turtle nesting population? The answer is easy: by over-exploiting its females or their eggs at the nesting beach. And the most effective way to rehabilitate that over-exploited sea turtle population? This should also be a simple solution: protect its nesting females, along with their eggs and hatchlings, at the beach.
Read More“Protecting the habitat of sea turtles is equivalent to protecting the habitats of thousands of species—whales, sharks, seabirds, sea flora, even humans...” - Dr. Sylvia Earle
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