Sentences with phrase «sea turtle nests in»

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.

We saw sea turtles nesting in the wee hours, and beautiful sunrises in the mornings.

Not exact matches

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

70 % of plastics aren't recycled, and thus end up in landfill, the sea, or in the stomach of birds, turtles, and sea life;

For non-Americans like me who, upon hearing the word «turtle», think not of confectionary but the creature upon which Discworld rests, Christopher Elbow describes this treat as «perfectly roasted pecans and soft caramel encased in premium dark chocolate... [topped] off with Grey Sea Salt from France.

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.

In sea turtles, sex is determined by the nest's environment: warmer temperatures produce females and cooler temperatures produce males.

In 2007, 1.4 million nests were dug in this 15 - kilometre stretch of sand, making it a contender for the largest sea - turtle nesting site in the worlIn 2007, 1.4 million nests were dug in this 15 - kilometre stretch of sand, making it a contender for the largest sea - turtle nesting site in the worlin this 15 - kilometre stretch of sand, making it a contender for the largest sea - turtle nesting site in the worlin the world.

It's not clear when or how the 202 - year - old Academy acquired the fossil, but the first scientific description of it in 1849 identified it as belonging to an ancient sea turtle.

«The beaches of Madagascar are important nesting sites for four species of marine turtle — Green sea turtles, Hawksbill sea turtles, Loggerhead sea turtles and Olive Ridley sea turtles, so the increase in poaching is of great concern,» said Alison Clausen, WCS's Regional Director for Madagascar and the Western Indian Ocean.

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.

The researchers focused on leatherback sea turtles nesting on St. Kitts, an island in the West Indies southeast of Puerto Rico.

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.

Given the turtles» environment, he was not surprised by what he found, Witherington told the 14th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium held last week in South Carolina.

The number of loggerhead sea turtles nesting on the refuge has steadily increased in the past few decades, reaching 1,100 in 2014.

The fungus was blamed for mass mortalities in the nests of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean.

New research indicates that for loggerhead sea turtles in the Northwest Atlantic, the number of returning nesting females in the population and favorable climate conditions in the year or two prior to the nesting year are strongly related to the number of nests produced by these animals in a given year.

These models were then used to assess observed changes in nest counts and to project future nesting trends in the Northwest Atlantic loggerhead sea turtle population, the largest in the world.

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.

But when the first turtles moved from the land to the sea more than a hundred million years ago, they didn't have this ability, says Ren Hirayama, a paleontologist at Teikyo Heisei University in Chiba, Japan.

Hirayama noticed that the bones in its limbs were not fused into rigid paddles as they are in living sea turtles.

Co-author Dr Matthew Witt from the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) at the University of Exeter added: «These findings further emphasize the regional and global importance of Gabon's nesting sea turtle populations and places the country in a better position to support and implement measures to protect them.»

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.

Despite their miniature fins, young sea turtles paddle more than many people think they do, he says, meaning these animals could head in directions not decided solely by ocean conditions.

Specifically, they looked at two long - term warming and cooling cycles whose effect on sea turtles hadn't been investigated, one in the Pacific where Japanese turtles spend their formative years, and another in the Atlantic, where young Floridian turtles live.

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

Humans are pushing sea turtles to the brink of extinction by entangling them in fishing gear, tossing plastic garbage into their habitats, and building resorts on prime nesting beaches, among other affronts.

These European reptiles inhabited warm, shallow seas of the continent, but «they were not as agile in this environment as today's sea turtles, who are able to cover very large distances and cross seas and even oceans,» the expert explains.

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.

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.

During a two - year period, Herrera flew his own plane 33 times over the Gulf Coast north of Tampico, Mexico, conducting aerial surveys in search of the mass sea turtle nesting.

In this paper we develop models that measure climate forcing in long - term trends of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) nesting in Japan and FloridIn this paper we develop models that measure climate forcing in long - term trends of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) nesting in Japan and Floridin long - term trends of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) nesting in Japan and Floridin Japan and Florida.

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Following the excavation, students measured tracks in the sand, looked for signs that the sea turtles had made it safely to the shoreline, and collected samples of sand and shells surrounding the nest.

Turtle Trax may one day offer satellite tracking of Hawaiian green sea turtles from their nesting site to their home foraging grounds, but such tracking is only in the planning stage.

Lives of the Ancient Mariner This page contains a description of the nesting habits of sea turtles in Florida.

In that way, they will see how often the sea turtles do not get to the nesting grounds safely.

STSL, which is based in Gainesville, Florida, hopes that with this increased appreciation will come a desire to act in ways to help protect and preserve not only sea turtles, but all wildlife and native habitats.»

The important things — school, friends, his grandfather, the sea turtle beach — do not fit in Aref's suitcase, and he finds himself getting in his mother's way while sinking into sadness.

The whale tale forms the center of the story but, for me, it was the bit players that stole the show - the rays wallowing in the warm water under the pier, the sun fish snoozling close to the legs of the oil rig, the green sea turtles «carrying their homes along with them like aquatic RVs» and the herd of dolphins vying with each other to perform the most dare - devilish tricks (I thought the collective noun for dolphins was pod, but Lynne refers to them as a herd, and I'm not the landlubber to question her!)

She also participated in a Spay and Neuter program in Mazunte, Mexico; this program reduces the local pet population and promotes the survival of endangered sea turtles that nest on the coast.

Network for Endangered Sea Turtles (NEST) of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina exemplifies NHES» 12th Guiding Principle, «To recognize in animals their capacity for friendship and their need for friends.

Where Kayak had been somewhat docile by sea turtle standards before, after her cataract surgery she became considerably more rambunctious — more normal behavior for Loggerheads, who actually tend toward the feisty and don't usually make good roommates in captivity.

Akumal — which means «place of the turtles» in Mayan — is a nesting and feeding site for green and loggerhead turtles which graze on the sea grasses found off the Yucatan coast.

More than 3,000 species of sea creatures have been observed in the warm tropical waters around the island: When you're diving at Sipadan it's not a question of whether you'll see large pelagic species like manta rays, sea turtles, barracuda and sharks, but how many.

For us it didn't make sense, so Evelyn and I played on the beach while Matt sought out the sea turtles in the water.

In 2014, Sandos Hotels saw 64 protected nests, meaning 5,665 baby turtles found their way to the sea safely through this eco friendly program.

This is suspected to be caused by bad weather and sea surges up the beaches, damaging eggs in the process and meaning that turtles could not develop.

If you're not into swimming and snorkeling or just relaxing in a hammock, the island also has an interesting turtle farm and eco-attraction, the Garrafon Natural Reef Park, where you can do zip - line tours, go sea kayaking and swim with playful dolphins.