All The Eggs In One Basket: Conserving Too Few Sea Turtle Nesting Sites
August 30, 2006 @ 05:24 AM (EST)
Source: Sciencedaily.com
Current conservation assessments of endangered Caribbean sea turtles are too optimistic, according to Loren McClenachan and colleagues from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. McClenachan, Jeremy Jackson and Marah Newman agree that conservation efforts since the 1970's have dramatically helped increase green and hawksbill turtle populations that nest on protected beaches...
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