Sentences with phrase «endangered turtles»
"Endangered turtles" refers to turtles that are at serious risk of becoming extinct or dying out completely. Full definition
But now, tweeting a turtle can help save real endangered turtles in the wild.
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In a recent panel on environmental sustainability, Highland Park High School students were credited with saving 90,000 plastic water bottles from landfills, recycling cafeteria grease into biodiesel fuel and building a habitat for endangered turtles.
Most recently the Trust has contributed A$ 750,000 to WWF - Australia backed research to identify threats to populations of endangered turtles on the Great Barrier Reef.
The procedure, which brought together top scientists from China, Australia and the United States, provides a ray of hope in a continuing effort to save the world's most endangered turtle.
Recently, to keep things fresh for volunteers and visitors, the schedule was shuffled, and now aquatic animals are fed on Monday, fish on Tuesday, Blanding's turtles on Wednesday, water snakes on Thursday, box turtles on Friday, and endangered turtles on Saturday.
That turtle had recently been released in the area to bolster the state - endangered turtle population in southwest Illinois.
Divers touring this reef can expect to find everything from endangered turtles to barracudas and elusive sharks.
Drug trafficking is a serious impediment to conservation work in Latin America, with drug addiction and corruption hampering efforts to protect endangered turtles.
Listed on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List, the Yangtze giant softshell turtle is the most critically endangered turtle in the world.
«Reptile skin grown in lab for first time, helps study endangered turtle disease.»
It culminated in 26 arrests, with more than 400 animals — including endangered turtles and venomous snakes — taken into custody as evidence.
To make things easier, we've picked out some of our favourites, from beaches with a serious party scene to remote headlands where endangered turtles come to nest.
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It's not just in Thailand that people get caught with endangered turtles, it happens right here in North America.
Caja de Muertos is a haven for endangered turtles, birds and sea life.
In 2012, WCS launched an organization - wide program to revive some of the most endangered turtle and tortoise species.
Biologists already knew that fishing gear posed a problem for the endangered turtles, which can get entangled in trawlers» nets, but they were not sure exactly where and when they were running into trouble.
Please note that fins are banned as they can injure the endangered turtles, but we quickly found that they weren't needed.
Filter and eau de vie de poire tell the tale of a young girl who discovers an endangered turtle in her swimming pool; and documentation of the artist's own backyard attempt at making pear brandy.
The giant, ancient, endangered turtles, some the size of a Smart Car, have until now only been known to nest in four spots in the United States — with about three dozen females a year laying eggs on beaches along the east coast of Florida and slightly larger nesting populations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Wind Concerns Ontario states, «The rare and endangered Blanding's turtle had a good day last July — the Environmental Review Tribunal revoked the Ontario government's decision to allow a wind turbine project at Ostrander Point in Prince Edward County on the grounds that the project would cause «serious and irreversible harm» to the endangered turtles native to the area».