Not exact matches
Although SpaceX has won praise from some wildlife managers for its plans to minimize negative effects, the launch facility is a worry for conservationists such as Carole Allen of the
Sea Turtle Restoration Project, particularly about the Kemp's
ridley turtle, which
nests primarily in Texas and northern Mexico and nearly went extinct in the 1970s.
Smaller - scale translocations have been successful, Wibbels points out; Each year from 1978 until 1988, about 2000 Kemp's
ridley sea turtle eggs were moved from the species» sole
nesting beach in Rancho Nuevo, Mexico, to Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christi, Texas, in a bid to start a second
nesting beach.
Tens of thousands of Kemp's
ridley sea turtles were thought to be
nesting on the day the film was shot in 1947.
Newly examined video of Kemp's
ridley sea turtles, which are found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, shows that the species» recovery from endangerment has stalled at less than one - tenth of historic
nesting levels.
It was estimated by some who viewed the original black - and - white footage that there were more than 40,000
nesting Kemp's
ridley sea turtles on the beach that day.
«At the time of the film's development, no one was able to connect the dots between the phenomenon of the mass
nesting and that the
nests belonged to the Kemp's
ridley sea turtles,» Wibbels said.
The marine life includes black — and white tip reef sharks, lots of
turtles (hawksbill and olive
ridley), lionfish, scorpion fish, cuttle fish and octopus, moray eels,
sea snakes, different types of rays (blue — spotted, eagle and, from December to March, manta rays)
not to mention schools of bump — head parrot fish every full moon.
Four species of
sea turtle (green, Pacific
ridley, hawksbill, and leatherback)
nest on the beaches.
Situated in the counties of Santa Cruz and Nicoya in the province of Guanacaste, the Ostional National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1984 to protect one of the world's most important
nesting sites of the olive
ridley sea turtle.
This includes black — and white tip reef sharks, lots of
turtles (hawksbill and olive
ridley), lionfish, scorpion fish, cuttle fish and octopus, moray eels,
sea snakes, different types of rays (blue — spotted, eagle and, from December to March, manta rays)
not to mention schools of bump — head parrot fish every full moon and the occasional whale shark... plus countless varieties of hard and soft corals.
After graduating from Cal Poly, Serra worked for the National Park Service at Padre Island National Seashore and monitored endangered
nesting Kemp's
ridley sea turtles.