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Authorities seize 259 pounds of endangered leatherback turtle meat
The Dominican Fisheries and Aquaculture Council (CODOPESCA) has seized 259 pounds of illegally processed leatherback sea turtle meat at a seafood export company. The endangered species, disguised as ...
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Community-based Conservation of Leatherback Turtles in Solomon Islands: Local Responses to Global Pressures
16, No. 4, 2018 Community-based Conservation of Leatherb... The population of Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the western Pacific has experienced dramatic declines over the past two ...
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Petition Seeks to Protect Leatherback Sea Turtle Habitat in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— Conservation groups filed a legal petition today urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revise protected critical habitat for the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys ...
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Conservationists suspect fishing nets, increased tourism for sea turtle deaths in Bangladesh
and leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea). The olive ridley turtle is the most common, while the others visit Bangladesh’s coasts in much fewer numbers. The olive ridleys, which are ...