Sentences with phrase «sea turtles killed»

But the number of sea turtles killed is bad news, of course.

The actual number of sea turtles killed in U.S. fisheries is likely significantly higher.»

[citation needed] Effects on habitat [edit] A sea turtle killed by a boat propeller.

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It also affects sea urchins and kills algae, a source of food for sea turtles, he said.

Without such actions, the Environmental Impact Statement prepared for the Texas facility by the USFWS anticipates that a maximum of 91 nesting sea turtles could be killed or harmed.

Upwards of one million sea turtles, for example, were estimated to have been killed as bycatch from 1990 - 2008, according to a report published in Conservation Letters in 2010.

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.

And there is always a «by - catch» where sea turtles, dolphins, and other marine life is incidentally caught and killed during fishing.

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

Rainsong Wildlife Sanctuary has been trying to organize to protect the area's sea turtles, which are being killed for their shells (especially the highly endangered Hawksbill turtle), sold to Chinese companies for carving into trinkets.

We started to dive near the boat and swam with a passing sea turtle to kill time while our replacement boat came by to pick us up.

Plastic trash chokes and kills animals like sea turtles, whales, and sea birds, as animals think that the plastics are food.

Balloons Are No Solution In addition to boats, fishing lines, fishing hooks, and plastic bags can all kill or injure sea turtles — a fact that makes Kızılot's otherwise praiseworthy proposal seem lacking in basic understanding of how to protect the animals.

And finally I have been encountering a lot of greenies who respond to issues like sea turtle conservation with a shrug and «But until we tackle climate change anything we do to save sea turtles is a waste because climate change will just kill them all off anyway.»

Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it.

By some estimates, the freeze killed more green sea turtles than lived in Texas waters just a couple of decades ago.

This gear also catches and kills more than 80 other types of nontarget ocean wildlife, including depleted blue marlin, sharks, and endangered sea turtles.

Oceana's Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, senor manager for marine wildlife, is less excited about the report's findings: «It is disgraceful that U.S. fisheries are allowed to kill 4,600 endangered and threatened sea turtles each year - and that is the best case scenario.

Still, while the loss of 4,600 sea turtles every year as bycatch is still a serious issue, it is 90 % less than the estimated 71,000 killed 20 years ago.

Florida's unusually long cold snap this month led to a record - high manatee count, an unprecedented rescue of 5,000 sea turtles and massive fish kills that prompted a few temporary fishing bans.

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.

Judges review evidence during the murder trial of seven defendants accused of killing sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora in 2013.

Jairo Mora, 26, was killed last year while patrolling Moín Beach in the central Caribbean for nesting sea turtles.

Whether or not BP was burning sea turtles alive, the Gulf oil spill did kill a lot of these endangered creatures.