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June 16th is World Sea Turtle Day. These amazing creatures have been swimming in our oceans for over 100 million years! But six of the world’s seven sea turtle species are currently threatened. They ...
On Aug. 20, Katie’s Coffee House in Great Falls Mike Kearney hosted Kashmir World Foundation’s MISHELL Autonomous Sea Turtle Drone ... overconsumption, and habitat destruction are causing ...
The turtles, known as haggan and wong mool, are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act because they face threats from habitat loss and climate change. Critical habitat designation ...
A total of 200 sea turtles, including 100 acclimated to wild ... wild populations threatened by overfishing, pollution, and habitat loss. Xia Zhongrong, director of the reserve, highlighted ...
Beach erosion, coastal development and more frequent and intense storms drive habitat loss for the endangered and threatened sea turtles that nest on South Carolina’s beaches. In places with ...
“In their natural habitat, sea turtles face threats of entanglement, ingestion of plastic debris, habitat loss, and a changing ocean environment. With that in mind, a focus of the Animal Rescue ...
Benji Jones is an environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change ... in late spring and early summer, female sea turtles will crawl out of the ocean under ...
That promising news comes even amid continuing man-made threats to the beloved marine reptiles, including climate change, habitat loss, and fishing. “Sea turtles are a shining light of marine ...
Like all sea turtles, Kemp’s ridleys hatch in the ... Other factors may include degraded water quality, loss of nesting habitat from storm-fueled erosion, cold-stunning events, and overfishing ...
He has just returned from a fishing trip where he saw 10 Olive Ridley sea turtle carcasses floating ... causing damage to the entire habitat, not just turtles,” he says. Kumar says protecting ...