Sentences with phrase «sea turtle species»

«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.

Six of the seven sea turtle species are categorized as «Vulnerable,» «Endangered» or «Critically Endangered» globally by the IUCN Red List.

Since the early 1980s, I have studied sea turtle diets and have found plastic in the stomachs and intestines of virtually all sea turtle species from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.

They've also tried to test the greenhouse value of the Endangered Species Act by asserting that wildlife including several sea turtle species and, of course, polar bears faced extinction through global warming.

Explore the fascinating underwater world of the Mexican Caribbean on a leisurely snorkel tour in search of three of the world's seven sea turtle species while...

Santa Teresa needs to get organized for this, because just north at Manzanillo and above, it has been discovered that all four of Costa Rica's sea turtles are laying eggs, making it one of just a small handful of sites in the world with so many sea turtle species in one location.

Don't forget Turtle Reef to see rare and endangered sea turtle species adjacent to turtle grass beds.

The article noted that the Belize Barrier Reef, of which both Gladden Spit and the Silk Cayes are a part, are home to endangered sea turtle species as well as an important migratory destination for whale sharks.

One of the oldest and biggest national parks in Costa Rica, Santa Rosa boasts the largest remaining stand of tropical dry forest in Central America along with vital nesting sites for several sea turtle species.

There are over 300 turtle species worldwide, including roughly 60 types of tortoise and 7 sea turtle species.

They could use Internet resources to find pictures of actual sea turtle species to use as models for their designs.

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

The Great Barrier Reef contains over 400 coral species, 1,500 fish species, 4,000 mollusc species and six of the world's seven sea turtle species.

«World's most endangered sea turtle species in even more trouble than we thought.»

«Our IHC method is a breakthrough in hatchling sex identification in leatherback turtles, a species whose reproductive system differentiates more slowly than on other sea turtle species.»

Rebecca Lewison, an ecologist at San Diego State University who studies sea turtles, says the findings are important and likely apply to other sea turtle species.

Eventually, Mansfield would like to have enough data to make comparisons between sea turtle species.

Growing up to 400 pounds in weight, the green turtle is the second largest sea turtle species next to the leatherback turtle.

He oversees conservation and recovery programs for endangered and threatened marine mammal and sea turtle species in New England and the...

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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.

Green sea turtle Nickel has a safe home at Shedd, but some of her wild relatives are at risk because they can be accidentally caught, and drowned, in fishing gear targeting shrimp or other commercial seafood species.

The researchers are continuing to study more bluefin tissue samples to see if elevated radiation levels persist, and are also looking into radiation levels in other long distance migratory species including sea turtles, sharks and seabirds.

«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.

A proposed megaport and a sea turtle nesting beach collide within the group that maintains the endangered species list

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.

The resulting data set consisted of 45 avian genomes sequenced in part for this project [48 when including previously published species (40 — 42)-RSB- and three nonavian reptiles [American alligator, green sea turtle, and green anole lizard (43)-RSB-(table S1), with details reported in (44 — 52).

This area is home to approximately 40 percent of the world's reef wildlife population, including more than 75 percent of coral species and some 3,000 individual species of fish, as well as sea turtles, mollusks, crustaceans, and marine mammals.

On the beaches, there are also nesting sea turtles and as you go inland, many, many species, including jaguars and tapirs.

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.

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.

The U.S Endangered Species Act and International Union for the Conservation of Nature list sea turtles as threatened or endangered throughout most of their range.

Now there is good evidence that many species — including pigeons, sea turtles, chickens, naked mole rats and possibly cattle — can detect the Earth's geomagnetic field, sometimes with astonishing accuracy.

Tomorrow, a team will report in Nature the discovery of the most primitive turtle fossils yet found, and the data suggest that the newly identified species lived in the sea.

It includes about 175,000 tissue samples from roughly 145,000 unique animals and more than 60,000 samples of DNA representing virtually every known species of marine mammal and sea turtle.

The loggerhead sea turtle is listed as threatened (likely to become endangered, in danger of extinction, within the foreseeable future) under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, Archie Carr, who was considered to be the world's leading sea turtles expert, had been searching for the nesting beaches for this species for decades.»

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

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.

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.

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119 Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 32 (2): 119 - 134 (1994) RECRUITMENT IN MARINE FISHES: IS IT REGULATED BY STARVATION AND PREDATION IN THE EGG AND The Ultimate Guide to Hawaiian Reef Fishes, Sea Turtles, Dolphins, Whales, and Seals 6x9 inches, 400 pages, 965 color photographs, 396 species.

Tracking Sea Turtles: Lessons in Saving an Endangered Species Put on your scuba gear and grab your camera — we're going on an undersea adventure!

NOAA Office of Protected Species Read the story of the green sea turtle and how and why it became endangered.

After achieving a master's, she was involved in different exotic veterinary internships and experiences involving diverse exotic species including marine animals, fish, sea turtles, and other reptiles.

In Florida, endangered species that are seriously impacted by hunting cats include Key Largo cotton mouse, Key Largo woodrat, Lower Florida Keys marsh rabbit, Choctawhatchee beach mouse, Perdido Key beach mouse, green sea turtle, roseate tern, least tern and the Florida scrub jay.

They kill several endangered species, including the Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Key Largo wood rat, northern bobwhite quail and hatchling sea turtles.

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.

In Florida, domestic cats have been recognized as predators and a serious threat to the Key Largo cotton mouse, rice rat, Key Largo woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Choctawhatchee beach mouse, Perdido Key beach mouse, Anastasia Island beach mouse, Southeastern beach mouse, green sea turtle, roseate tern, least tern, and Florida scrub - jay, all federal listed species.