Endangered turtles' trek along ocean currents revealed by satellite
...c fishing areas is unlikely to have much impact in turtle bycatch reduction, and other solutions will have t... participating in the Argo-luth project, analysing turtle movements against outputs from MERCATOR, a model that presently covers the North and Equatorial Atla...Sea turtle health linked to contaminants
...nk. The new study is the first to investigate sea turtle health effects linked to a class of chemicals call...lina State University also collaborated on the sea turtle research. Funding was provided by the Morris Animal Foundation, Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund, O...Researchers find evidence that sea turtles navigate with magnetic maps
...lent of a global positioning system (GPS), but the turtle version is based on magnetism. A report on experim...l to the coastline," Catherine Lohmann said. "Each turtle was placed in a cloth harness and tethered to a tracking device in the pool of water inside the magn...More than 300 critically endangered species completely unprotected, new study shows
...ngered (EN) and 267 Vulnerable (VU) bird, mammal, turtle and amphibian species have no protection in any pa...d 4,735 mammal, 5,454 amphibian and 273 freshwater turtle and tortoise species were included. MAMMALS: Of 4,735 mammal species analyzed for this study, 258 ar...Report in BioScience details global decline of nonmarine mollusks
... ray species, and nearly seven times the number of turtle species. Furthermore, nonmarine mollusks have the dubious honor of having the highest number of documented extinctions of any major taxonomic group. A staggering 42% of the 693 recorded extinctions of all animal species since the year 1500 are...Five Marine Conservation leaders receive world's top award from Pew Institute for Ocean Science
...he West Indies, who will expand and strengthen sea turtle conservation in Barbados. Graham Robertson, Ph.D., an ornithologist and principal research scientist for Australia's Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program, who will develop alternative technology to save seabirds from becoming entangled in comm...Duke study gives first worldwide measure of sea turtle casualties by longline fishing
... those shortcomings, the Duke team mined available turtle bycatch data from the 13 nations that collect such...aper is the first to do a global assessment of sea turtle bycatch in longline fisheries. That's what sets it apart. There had been some earlier regional analy...Pacific leatherback turtle could go extinct in 10 years
...s best-known sea turtle, five of the other six sea turtle species are also at risk of extinction. The Kemp's... practices such as long-lining and the poaching of turtle eggs, which some cultures regard as a delicacy. Long-lining is a practice in which ships extend up t...Even though many sea turtle populations are declining, quantifying factors that contribute to declines has been challenging. Mortality occurs on nesting beaches due to habitat loss, egg poaching, and predation. But turtles also die at sea due to accidental catches in fishing ge...New Seascape initiative stretches from Costa Rica to Ecuador and protects key marine habitats
...n Pacific of the Critically Endangered leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). Under the agreement, the U... making it the world's largest gathering of marine turtle researchers. "Healthy seas are being threatened by rampant commercial fishing, coastal development ...Congo plans to safeguard biodiversity with new protected areas
...oastline, including some of the most important sea turtle nesting areas in the world. To the south, the government envisions the creation of a trans-boundary protected area along the borders of Angola and DRC. With support from WCS, the Republic of Congo has also launched an evaluation program for the c...International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
...ught together a dedicated group of leatherback sea turtle biologists to tag animals in Costa Rica, and we're... can develop sustainable fisheries without as much turtle and seabird bycatch," Block concluded....New technologies reveal mysteries of marine megafauna
...r the course of a day or season, can help identify turtle "hotspots" for fishermen to avoid. Such measures could greatly reduce bycatch of this threatened species without the potential social and economic costs of closing an entire fishery or large regional area. In the Gulf of Maine and elsewhere in the...World's largest-ever sea turtle symposium to address plummeting populations of sea turtles
...e than 1,100 of the world's leading experts on sea turtle conservation from 70 countries, will be held in Sa...d trawling of the ocean floor, and the poaching of turtle eggs, regarded by some cultures as an aphrodisiac. The leatherback sea turtle, which can grow to n...Endangered sea turtles make a dramatic turnaround
...ur-year period, the practice of illegally removing turtle eggs from nests has dropped from nearly 100 percen...Dr. Cynthia Lagueux, who has conducted research on turtle populations along the Nicaraguan coast for more than a decade. "Beach surveys and active protection ...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...L studies of tagged Pacific Leatherbacks, a marine turtle at risk of extinction this century, are revealing critical habitat and foraging grounds in the eastern Pacific, the goal being to help fishers avoid them; Underwater video technologies have revealed surprisingly rich three-dimensional habitats for...Lone Vietnamese turtle may be last of its kind
... of Southeast Asia, the East Asian giant softshell turtle may finally be faced with extinction, as the last ...rpetology at the Bronx Zoo, who confirmed that the turtle still exists in Hoan Kiem Lake. "We know next to nothing about this species or its habitat requireme...Scientists celebrate a sea turtles homecoming
...rvationist Dr. Cynthia Lagueux, who runs WCS's sea turtle project in Nicaragua. "We are really starting to ...nother pleasant surprise, when a previously tagged turtle named "Midsi" came ashore to nest. Though her transmitter had been removed by a lobster diver in 20......s." In Indonesia, for example, the Sulawesi forest turtle is already critically endangered after only being ...made from the attractive Chinese three-striped box turtle has cancer-curing properties has reduced populations of this species to a few remnant colonies in No...... decline of Kemp's ridleys another species of sea turtle whose numbers became dangerously low in the mid 19...n their nesting beaches in Mexico and by requiring turtle excluder devices (TEDs) in U.S. and Mexican trawl fisheries. TEDs are metal grids placed in the back...