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Help Save Leatherback Sea Turtles
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Leatherback sea turtles are dying every day due to longline fishing in the Cocos Island National Park. These majestic, long-living animals take a long time to repopulate, so when their numbers decline, the impact is heavy and dramatic. Read more about Help Save Leatherback Sea Turtles
Keep the Turtles Wild
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Conservationists are warning people to not pick up turtles as pets when they seem them in the wild. Right now, they are in their nesting season, and it’s common to see them. Read more about Keep the Turtles Wild
Tiny Turtles
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This tiny little guy looks like he needs a little break! Read more about Tiny Turtles
Join Oceana in Calling for the Protection of Sea Turtles
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After watching Finding Nemo, I thought it would be amazingly cool to be a sea turtle. Sure, some of it had to do with how cool the turtles themselves were; Crush was hands-down my favorite character in the movie, and those groovy tie-dye shells were all about peace and love in the ocean and beyond. But their lives seemed cool, too; they could live to be 150 years old, they got to swim all over the place and see the ocean, they had the cutest babies alive, and they got to practically surf the East Australian Current. All in all, that sounded like a pretty amazing life! Read more about Join Oceana in Calling for the Protection of Sea Turtles
Snapping Turtles
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Well, I certainly would not want to get my hands anywhere near that mouth! Though, when I think about it, I guess I would be biting at everything too - if I was a common ingredient for soup. Read more about Snapping Turtles
Save the Gulf Sea Turtles
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The tragedies unfolding in the Gulf Coast aren’t just affecting its people, jobs, and coastline. The animals in the Gulf Coast are suffering greatly—particularly the loggerhead sea turtle. Loggerhead sea turtles were already under attack well before the oil spill even occurred, however. In the past ten years, their numbers have dwindled down to half their normal nesting females.
Considered a threatened species, the loggerhead is now being considered for endangered status by the National Marine Fisheries Service. The Gulf region is so important to this species because it’s the turtle’s second-biggest nesting area—not just in the United States, but in the world itself. Without it, the species is sure to suffer a further decline. Read more about Save the Gulf Sea Turtles
Sea Turtles Killed by Fisheries
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Need a reason to ease up on the fish eating other than vegetarianism, being humane to animals, avoiding mercury poisoning, and the environment itself? If you love sea turtles, you might want to start eating fake fish, because it turns out that the fishing industry is causing death to many turtles every day.
Within the last 20 years, millions of sea turtles have been captured—usually accidentally—by unsustainable fishing practices such as trawling or using longlines or gillnet methods. If you thought dolphin bycatch during tuna hunting was bad, you’ll be very dismayed to know that sea turtles are commonly drowning by being kept in these nets for too long. Like other reptiles, they require oxygen—something they cannot get when trapped in a net. Read more about Sea Turtles Killed by Fisheries
Save Turtle Habitat!
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The other day, I was rummaging in my daughter’s toy chest and found her turtle puppet. “Look,” I told her, “Your turtle puppet!”
She wrinkled her nose, slapped a hand on her four-year-old hip, and informed me, “It’s not a turtle, Mommy, it’s a leatherback sea turtle.”
Well then! At least they had someone sticking up for them, eh?
It turns out that we, too, can stick up for the leatherback sea turtle today—albeit in a slightly less bossy manner. Read more about Save Turtle Habitat!
Tracking Website for Leatherback Sea Turtles
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Researchers from the University of Exeter in the UK are not only tracking two leather back turtles, now you two can follow them from a special Website that displays the current position of the turtles. Read more about Tracking Website for Leatherback Sea Turtles