Sentences with phrase «ridley turtles»

Manly the olive ridley turtles, but as well green sea turtles and the big leatherback turtles.

Olive ridley turtles, hawksbill turtles, green turtles and leatherback turtles come ashore to nest along the beach during their breeding season.

Kemp's ridley turtles are currently classified as critically endangered on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species.

How many Kemp's ridley turtles should there be in the Gulf?

A huge ground survey covering nearly 600 km of Gabon's coastline has uncovered the largest breeding colony of olive ridley turtles in the Atlantic.

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

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.

Sea turtle experts clean a small Kemp's ridley turtle with a toothbrush in June 2010, during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Not exact matches

Just seconds ago it was dumped into a hole in the sand by a female olive ridley sea turtle.

Patrick Burchfield, director of the Gladys Porter Zoo and a key player in recovery efforts for Kemp's ridley sea turtles, says the company contacted him early in its site selection process to discuss concerns about the facility.

The creatures include the leatherback, loggerhead, hawksbill, green and Kemp's ridley sea turtles, as well as birds like the piping plover, red knot, and northern aplomado falcon.

Michael Ziccardi, an Oiled Wildlife Care Network veterinarian advising the spill response in Louisiana, blogs that the first oiled turtle since the spill, a 2 - pound Kemp's ridley, has been rescued and cleaned.

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.

Mansfield placed specially designed solar - powered tags on 24 green & 20 Kemp's ridley wild - caught sea turtle toddlers in the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

«Scientists began to wonder whether the Kemp's ridley could actually be a hybrid turtle.»

«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 leatherback, hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, and loggerhead sea turtles are all listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

The simulations showed that upwards of 320,000 green (Chelonia mydas), loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) turtles were likely present within the spill site.

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.

Here you can see the Leatherback turtles and the Olive Ridleys coming to lay their eggs on the beaches at night.

San Ignacio lagoon is also the critical habitat for the nearly extinct Berrendo or pronghorn antelope and an important feeding habitat for four of the worlds seven species of sea turtles: leatherbacks, hawksbills, green turtles and Olive Ridleys (all endangered).

The olive ridley, hawksbill, leather back, green, flatback and loggerhead turtle are all frequently spotted at various sites on the reef.

The slope on the north coast is the best place to spot green sea turtles, olive ridley and hawksbills.

Six of the world's seven species of marine turtle are found within the Whitsundays — green and hawksbill turtles are commonly seen, while flatback, loggerhead, pacific ridley (olive ridley) and leatherback turtles have also been recorded.

1 Pawikan Nesting Sanctuary Ever since Danilo Dequina helped organized the sanctuary way back in 2003, the place has been an important partner in marine turtle conservation with the beaches of Maitum known nesting grounds to five species: olive ridley, loggerhead, hawksbill, green turtle and leatherback, which was last seen a decade ago.

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.