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Rare Illinois Turtles Making Comeback With Help From Chicago Museum - DNAinfo.com Chicago - March 10, 2016 Twenty years of collaborative efforts between several wildlife organizations are starting to pay off for an endangered turtle hunted by poachers, run over by cars and eaten by a multitude of predators.

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.

«We are honored to receive an Environmental Merit Award from the New England EPA in recognition of our partnership with the Aquarium to save endangered sea turtles,» Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton said.

The organization found that eBay sites in six countries were selling endangered wildlife products, including elephant ivory and hides, turtle shells, and skins from leopards, cheetahs, ocelots, lizards and crocodiles; two thirds of all endangered species products listed on eBay had U.S. sellers.

Jolie Harrison works at NOAA managing programs to implement the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act that: 1) allow for incidental marine mammal take resulting from activities such as military training or seismic surveys, and 2) allow for research, enhancement, and photography of marine mammals and ESA - listed fish and sea turtles.

In the library, first graders are following the progress of Miss Junie 2, an endangered sea turtle they adopted (for 85 cents each) from the Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC).

His investigations revealed that high officials in the U.S. Trust Territory of Palau were smuggling endangered species products from the Philippines to Palau and, contrary to U.S. law, they were also shipping sea turtles to Japan.

On your fully escorted Costa Rica tour you can expect to possibly see many of the rare Costa Rica wildlife species in their natural habitat including everything from the endangered sea turtles, quetzal birds or scarlet macaw, to the elusive Jaguar, tapirs, or 2 and 3 toed sloths.

Pak Boulong is a local person who dedicated himself to conserve and start breeding turtles which are endangered and protected animals on the islands, He starts from eggs collected, and after hatching and the turtle babies are old enough and ready to start their new life on the open seas they are released, with many travelers who come to Gili Meno for this special occasion.

Our pristine beaches and coastline teem with life, from endangered sea turtles to seabirds and mollusks.

«We intend to use our influence and expertise to protect it, focusing on reef conservation and on creating safe migratory routes for the endangered species that travel this coastline, from turtles to humpback whales.»

Measuring more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from north to south, the MRS is home to hundreds of fish species, endangered sea turtles, avian species, sharks, and a number of endangered species like the brown Pelican.

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.

From November to January nesting sea turtles, including endangered loggerhead turtles, come ashore at night to lay their eggs at Mon Repos beach, in the city of Bundaberg (about four hours» drive or a one hour flight north of Brisbane).

Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.

If snakes, lizards, skinks, and reptiles in general give you the creeps, then we've got seven reasons to give them another chance: From tiny turtles to massive dragons, these endangered reptiles have one - of - a-kind personalities, camouflage techniques, and coloring that make them different from your average creepy - craFrom tiny turtles to massive dragons, these endangered reptiles have one - of - a-kind personalities, camouflage techniques, and coloring that make them different from your average creepy - crafrom your average creepy - crawly.

If snakes, lizards, skinks, and reptiles in general give you the creeps, then we've got seven reasons to give them another chance: From tiny turtles to massive dragons, these endangered reptiles

The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle sets itself apart from other turtle populations in several ways: They're the smallest of all the Gulf of Mexico turtle species, measuring only about 2 feet when fully grown; they're the world's most endangered sea turtle; and they're known for their synchronized nesting activities, called arribadas, in which hundreds or thousands of females come ashore on the same day to lay their eggs.

It features the largest seabird gathering site in the world, with more than 14 million birds from 22 species, nearly all of the remaining endangered Hawaiian monk seals, Hawaiian green sea turtles and Laysan albatrosses.

One thing is for certain, though: these turtles are critically endangered, no thanks to climate change, habitat loss, illegal poaching and ending up as bycatch from destructive fishing practices.

Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera, Puerto Rico: Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera helped lead a successful campaign to establish a nature reserve in Puerto Rico's Northeast Ecological Corridor — an important nesting ground for the endangered leatherback sea turtle — and protect the island's natural heritage from harmful development.

The other beaches are habitat for the endangered and threatened species of the atoll who need some space away from humans, so they are cleaned only when clear of animals like Hawaiian monk seals and Green sea turtles.

More than 4,400 freshwater turtles, including 3,800 endangered Palawan forest turtles, were confiscating from a poacher in the Philippines last week.

Updates below This quiet stretch of beach near Limón, Costa Rica, was photographed on May 19 by Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 - year - old conservationist who regularly patrolled there to protect endangered sea turtles and their nests from poachers (photo of him at work).

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.

As someone who has actually removed plastic bags from the bodies of endangered animals, I can tell you that the rhetoric of the plastics industry falls apart in the face of reality,» says Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, research associate at the California Academy of Sciences «A 2009 report showed that almost half of the remaining leatherback turtles carry plastic in them, the most common item being plastic bags.

It's prized by visitors from around the world, including endangered leatherback sea turtles, who swim thousands of miles to get there.

Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera helped lead a successful campaign to establish a nature reserve in Puerto Rico's Northeast Ecological Corridor — an important nesting ground for the endangered leatherback sea turtle — and protect the island's natural heritage from harmful development.

Some threatened and endangered species such as loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) and eastern brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) have been successfully saved from extinction, yet threats remain for them, as well as for Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), sturgeons (Ascipenser spp.), Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis), and Acropora corals.

So while the good news from the report is that progress has been made, the bad news is we're still loosing thousands of sea turtles every year — and all species found in US waters are threatened or endangered.

«isolated from population centers, mostly uninhabited» and supporting «endemic, depleted, migratory, endangered and threatened species of fish, giant clams, crabs, marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds, migratory shorebirds and corals that are rapidly vanishing elsewhere in the world.»

«Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are critically endangered and the majority of hawksbill habitat use and movement research to date has been centred in the Wider Caribbean and Indo - Paciï ¬ c regions... As recently as 2007, hawksbills were considered functionally extirpated in the eastern Paciï ¬ c Ocean, based on scarce reports of their presence and the sparse coral reef distribution in the region... This study represents the ï ¬ rst initiative to track individuals from this remnant hawksbill population and describes novel habitat use that will inform regional conservation efforts.»

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Arlington, VA — A massive new marine protected area around Cocos Island is a beacon of hope for ocean health and human well - being in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, and will offer endangered marine species such as hammerhead sharks and leatherback turtles, as well as fish stocks that are important to local communities, the chance to recover from increasing pressures, Conservation International (CI) said today in reaction to a decree by the Costa Rican government.

Demand for rhino horn, ivory and other products made from parts of tigers, turtles and other endangered species is increasing in China and the Far East as living standards rise.