Sentences with phrase «of sea turtle»

So in 1995, the Katupika, Kia and Wagina communities joined together to create the Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area and at the same time, the national government imposed a national ban on the trade of sea turtle products.

«Once the most abundant of the sea turtle species, the green sea turtle is in serious decline,» notes The Humane Society of the United States.

LIMÓN — A Limón court delivered guilty verdicts for four of seven defendants in the 2013 killing of sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora and the kidnapping and robbery of four foreign volunteers.

Photo: Wikipedia, public domain.Destroying the Evidence?Kemp's Ridley is a critically endangered species of sea turtle that can be found in the Gulf of Mexico.

The movement nationwide to stop plastic straws from polluting seas took off after a video of a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nose went viral online in 2015.

But, as we saw in the heartwrenching video where rescuers extracted a straw from the nostril of a sea turtle, we need to be worried about what happens to straws after they leave our lips and our lids.

The Tico Times in Costa Rica has been providing valuable updates since the murder late last week of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 - year - old guardian of sea turtle nests on Moín Beach on the country's Caribbean coast near the town of Limón.

Julian Rocks Marine Reserve is home to three different species of sea turtle, an assortment of rays, hard and soft corals, friendly wobbegong sharks and over five hundred different species of fish.

Four species of sea turtle (green, Pacific ridley, hawksbill, and leatherback) nest on the beaches.

U.S.V.I is home to three species of sea turtle, leatherback and hawksbill (endangered), and the green turtle.

Over 160 species of fish have been recorded in the reserve, along with forty types of coral, five species of sponge, two sea grasses, three species of sea turtle and three marine mammals.

This is a popular spot for snorkelers because there are green turtles — an endangered species of sea turtle — that come here to feed on the ample sea grass beds.

Our Dive Site: Julian Rocks Here the reserve is home to three different species of sea turtle, an assortment of rays including mantas, hard and soft corals, friendly wobbegong sharks and over four hundred different species of fish.

Indigenous to Nayarit, the Olive Ridley is one of the smallest species of sea turtle and is named for the olive color of its heart - shaped shell.

The reserve is home to three different species of sea turtle, an assortment of rays including mantas, hard and soft corals, friendly wobbegong sharks and over four hundred different species of fish.

Numerous endangered species are protected within the boundaries of the BBRRS including; the West Indian manatee, the American crocodile and three species of sea turtle.

In fact, not only is it legal, on mainland Abaco, evidence of sea turtle slaughter is everywhere.

The diversity of the sea life here is extensive, and you might even catch a glimpse of a sea turtle swimming by.

Over 160 species of fish have been identified at Hol Chan & Shark Ray Alley, along with nearly 40 species of corals, 5 sponges, 8 algaes, 2 seagrasses, 3 marine mammals and 3 species of sea turtle.

Over 160 species of fish have been identified in the reserve, along with nearly 40 species of corals, 5 sponges, 8 algaes, 2 seagrasses, 3 marine mammals and 3 species of sea turtle.

The coral reefs of Akumal Bay provide a protected sanctuary that attracts six of the world's seven species of sea turtle.

Out of the dive sites at Sipadan - Mabul - Kapalai waters, Borneo Divers Mabul Resort has its very own attractive dive site, Paradise 2 at our private jetty that offers invaluable underwater» treasures» that awaiting fellow divers to discover...... Borneo Divers has immense commitments and supports towards the incredible project of the sea turtle research and conservation spearheaded by the University Of Sabah Malaysia together with certain agencies.

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Nothing brings home the message of the sea turtle's fight for survival better than this EuroTurtle: A Sea Turtle Adventure Game from the EuroTurtle Home Page.

Plastic has been found ingested in 60 percent of marine birds and a whopping 100 percent of sea turtle species.

Outcomes from Mariana's study provide crucial information for the future management and conservation of sea turtle populations as climate change progresses.

MEXICO: According to a new study thousands of individual animals from hundreds of marine species including every kind of sea turtle and around half of marine mammals have encountered plastic, glass, and other garbage in the ocean.

«The most vulnerable part of a sea turtle's life is the first few years,» says Frank Paladino, a marine biologist at Indiana - Purdue University in Fort Wayne.

A new study from the University of Exeter has revealed that the Central African country of Gabon is providing an invaluable nesting ground for a vulnerable species of sea turtle considered a regional conservation priority.

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

To determine how widespread that fungus might be, Jullie Sarmiento - Ramírez of Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC in Madrid and colleagues conducted a survey of sea turtle nests in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans from 2005 to 2012.

Those two fungal species show an important adaptation: The optimal growth temperature for the fungi coincides with the range of temperatures that are suitable for the development of sea turtle embryos, the researchers found.

«Sea turtle crisis: Moisture, not just heat impacts sex of sea turtle hatchlings: Sex - ratio study first to use molecular marker to explain why and how moisture affects the nest.»

Today, new tagging methods are quickly shedding light on what scientists once called the «lost years» — the early years of a sea turtle's life when their migration patterns were mostly unknown.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

Worldwide, at least 143 marine species are known to have become entangled in marine debris (including almost all of the world's species of sea turtles) and at least 177 marine species (including 95 % of all the world's sea birds) have eaten plastic litter.

Their goal: to save the lives of sea turtles.

FEELING THE HEAT Climate change may skew the sex ratios of sea turtles (loggerhead shown), but that could be a small worry compared with the dangers of overheated nests.

Other studies of sea turtles suggest that characteristics of the sand, the slope of the beach and proximity to vegetation contribute to the success or failure of nests, but «no study has tried to determine what factors cause female leatherback sea turtles to dig a nest in a particular spot, or what factors contribute to when they come up to nest,» the researchers wrote.

Not so long ago, the lives of sea turtles were largely a mystery.

To learn more about the mysterious lives of sea turtles, researchers attached tiny satellite trackers to young turtles and set them free in the open ocean.

«On a global scale, bycatch is one of the most serious threats to the survival of sea turtles, and the more we can combine our monitoring and mitigation efforts, the greater the chance that we can improve the situation before it's too late.»

Olive ridley turtles are one of the smallest of the sea turtles and are named for the greenish colour of their shell and skin.

«The good news is that the nesting habits of sea turtles do protect them from large - scale nest loss and make them more resilient to this kind of event.

Numerous studies have shown that fishing bycatch kills an alarming number of sea turtles each year, and the threats posed by many other human activities are well documented.

Kenneth Lohmann, a neurobiologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says the findings could lead to advances in his own work on the magnetosensitivity of sea turtles, which travel long distances to their home beaches to lay eggs.

To make things even more complicated, in some species of sea turtles, their sexual anatomy is not physically apparent until about a decade or so when they approach sexual maturity.

More than 95 percent of sea turtles present at the spill site are thought to have originated from outside of the U.S., including from populations throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, northern South America, and western Africa.

Magnetite has been found in the beaks of birds, the brains of sea turtles, the tummies of honeybees, and the nasal passages of rainbow trout.

Will Turner: He roped himself a couple of sea turtles.