Endangered turtles' trek along ocean currents revealed by satellite
...d endorsed by the World Wildlife Fund. Meanwhile leatherback tracking continues on an ongoing basis, Gaspar added: "We are now looking at estimating the swimming speed of turtles during their trips by obtaining their total velocity from the Argos receivers, then subtracting the current velocity made available ...Duke study gives first worldwide measure of sea turtle casualties by longline fishing
...M, N.C. -- More than 250,000 loggerhead and 60,000 leatherback turtles are estimated to be inadvertently snared e...ave caught at least 200,000 loggerheads and 50,000 leatherback turtles in 2000," they wrote. In his interview, Crowder added that loggerheads tend to become bycatc...Pacific leatherback turtle could go extinct in 10 years
February 26, 2004 (San Jose, Costa Rica) The leatherback turtle, a gentle giant weighing close to a ton (90...ountries. Named for its smooth, leathery skin, the leatherback has graced ocean waters from the tropics to the Arctic since the time of the dinosaurs more than 100....... Given 80-95% declines for Pacific loggerhead and leatherback populations, this bycatch is not sustainable....New Seascape initiative stretches from Costa Rica to Ecuador and protects key marine habitats
...n the Eastern Pacific of the Critically Endangered leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). Under the agreement...he marine species that has been hardest hit is the leatherback turtle, which has seen its populations decline in the Eastern Pacific by more than 97 percent in the...International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
...We also have brought together a dedicated group of leatherback sea turtle biologists to tag animals in Costa Rica, and we're going to figure out how to keep these animals from going extinct. It's a very exciting time for the TOPP program, and we're just getting started." One realization TOPP scientists had as th...New technologies reveal mysteries of marine megafauna
How can scientists follow leatherback sea turtles that dive to crushing depths a half-mile below the surface and swim across 80% of the world's ocean? Or tunas that race faster than most boats? Or albatrosses that soar halfway across the Pacific without sleep or a meal -- unlike their hu...World's largest-ever sea turtle symposium to address plummeting populations of sea turtles
...regarded by some cultures as an aphrodisiac. The leatherback sea turtle, which can grow to nine feet in size and up to 2,000 pounds and pre-dates the dinosaur, is one of the species on the brink of extinction. In 1982, 115,000 reproductive female leatherbacks graced the coastlines of the Americas in the Pacifi...Leatherback sea turtles careening towards extinction
...ioned appeal for international cooperation to save leatherback sea turtles from extinction. Leatherbacks are the... the more swordfish caught, the higher the rate of leatherback bycatch," says Crowder. To help remedy this problem, U.S. longline fisheries already have been restr...Tagging the great white shark...and a few of his friends
...st dressed elephant seals, tuna fish, albatrosses, leatherback sea turtles, great white sharks, and other pelagic megafauna in the Pacific all be wearing in the coming seasons? How about the latest in microprocessor-based electronic tags, some no bigger than oversized cufflinks? It's all in a continuing effo...Scientists launch the worlds first marine life census
... albatrosses (the largest seabird), salmon sharks, leatherback turtles, yellowfin tuna, blue whales and loggerhead turtles. Runners-up included squid, California sea lions, loggerhead turtles, California gray whales, sperm whales, sooty shearwaters (a migratory bird) and three fish species: great white sharks, m......e western coast of South America -- there are some leatherback turtles who have just begun to share their traffic...a, Morreale and his colleagues tagged eight female leatherback turtles with small satellite transmitters designed to survive the crushing pressure of the ocean's d...