Scuba Diver Girl Anna | September 8, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project, seaturtles.org Your letter supporting the endangered listing of loggerheads will affirm years of scientific studies that show distinct loggerhead populations are imperiled, and greater regulatory measures are needed for the recovery of these populations. Once listed as endangered, U.S. loggerheads are entitled to gain critical habitat protections under the Endangered [...]
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Scuba Diver Girl Anna | September 8, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project, Seaturtles.org Laura Boudreau teaches 2nd and 3rd grades at North Bennington Graded School in North Bennington, Vermont. Reading the local newspaper they were all saddened by the sea turtle crisis in the Gulf of Mexico after the major Deepwater Horizon oil spill. They decided that they wanted to help! After [...]
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Scuba Diver Girl Anna | September 7, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project, seaturtles.org Leatherback Sea Turtle Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea)—Critically Endangered © Doug Perrine/Seapics.com The leatherback is the largest of all sea turtles, growing to over six feet in length and weighing over 2,000 lbs. Leatherbacks routinely swim great distances across ocean basins and can dive to depths greater than [...]
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Scuba Diver Girl Anna | September 2, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project, Seaturtles.org A lawsuit threatened by the Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP) has brought action from the National Marine Fisheries Service to stop the killing of sea turtles across the Gulf of Mexico. Their Southeast Regional Office has announced it will reinitiate Section 7 consultation on shrimp trawling under the Endangered [...]
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Scuba Diver Girl Anna | August 24, 2010
By The Sea Turtle Restoration Project Posted by Chris Pincetich, Campaigner and Marine Biologist on August 21st, 2010 I joined the Unified Command on-water sea turtle capture team to witness their current operations; searching for sea turtles offshore in the sargassum seaweed, recording observations, capturing sea turtles, and evaluating the captured sea turtles’ health and [...]
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Scuba Diver Girl Anna | August 23, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoratoin Project Ship strikes, vessel noise and pollution can harm sea turtles SHIPPING AND TURTLES Where ports and shipping traffic intersect with sea turtle nesting beaches, nearshore habitat and ocean migration paths, the potential for harm to or disruption of sea turtle life cycle arises. The existence of ports and shipping traffic [...]
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Scuba Diver Girl Anna | August 6, 2010
By Cole Chassy, Sea Turtle Restoration Project While interning at STRP this summer I aquired a great deal of knowledge concering local and global issuse that are vital to the preservation of sea turtles and endangered marine mammals. The vast array of duties I performed throughout my internship at STRP provided me with an invaluable professional [...]
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Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 26, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project, seaturtles.org Make a Difference Today ORDER NOW! You can become a steward of the environment by adopting a nest of sea turtle hatchlings! The Adopt A Nest Program is tax deductible, and makes a wonderful gift or classroom project. $45 for addresses within the U.S., $55 outside the [...]
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Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 13, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project Contact: Carole Allen, Gulf Director, 281-444-0564, Carole@seaturtles.org Chris Pincetich, Campaigner and marine biologist, 530-220-3687 chris@seaturtles.org Shrimp season opening in Texas on July 15 – Enforcement of Turtle Excluder Devices in shrimp boats critical to protecting Kemp’s ridleys from capture Galveston, Texas Sea Turtle Restoration Project has announced that a [...]
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Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 8, 2010
By Carole Allen, Gulf Office Director, Sea Turtle Restoration Project Daily nesting reports direct from the Texas Coast and Padre Island National Seashore The critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle return to the beaches of Texas and Mexico in April, May and June every year to lay their nests. See map of nesting locations here. [...]
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