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Sea Turtle Comeback: Giant Leatherback Numbers Rebound In Parts Of Caribbean
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, endangered, animals, animal welfareprotection )

Cal
- 4 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Now, the turtles are the focus of a thriving tourist trade, with people so devoted to them that they shoo birds away when the turtles first start out as tiny hatchlings scurrying to sea.
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Featured Video: Saving Sea Turtles in Mexico's Magdalena Bay
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, bicatch, endangered, animals, animal welfare )

Cal
- 14 days ago - news.mongabay.com
A new short film, Viva la tortuga documents the struggle to save loggerhead and green sea turtles in Magdalena Bay, Mexico. Once a region for a massive sea turtle meat market, the turtles now face a new threat: bycatch.
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Huge Response as 175 Volunteer to Protect Rhinos From Poachers
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, protection, turtles, sea turtles, wildanimals, endangered, animaladvocates, whales )

Cal
- 47 days ago - kentnews.co.uk
Conservation charity the Aspinall Foundation has had more than 175 applications to help protect their endangered black rhinos from poachers.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Force Shutdown of Inhumane Bear Zoos
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, protection, turtles, sea turtles, wildanimals, endangered, animaladvocates )

Cal
- 77 days ago - forcechange.com
Three "zoos" in North Carolina have been turning a profit by keeping bears tiny cages as a roadside attraction. These hotbeds of animal abuse have been mistreating wildlife for decades, but they can be stopped. Call on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
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Stop Killing More Sea Turtles in the Hawaiian Longline Swordfish Fishery ACTION
Animals  (tags: wildlife, sea turtles, loggerheads, leatherbacks, animalrights, government )

Nancy
- 86 days ago - change.org
Your help is needed now to reverse a decision by the U. S. government to increase the number of sea turtles that Hawaiian longline fishing can catch or kill in their pursuit of swordfish.
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Don't Sell Out Hawaii's Sea Turtles!
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, animalcruelty, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, endangered )

Agnes
- 139 days ago - theanimalrescuesite.com
Ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue its efforts to protect the honu!
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INDIA: Coast Guard to Intercept Illegal Trawlers to Ensure Safe Sojourn of Breeding Olive Ridley Sea Turtles
Animals  (tags: goodnews, animals, animaladvocates, SEA TURTLES, sea turtles, animalwelfare, animalrights, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cal
- 162 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
The coast guard has launched " Operation Oliver" to intercept illegal trawlers as part of its annual mission to ensure safe mid-sea sojourn of breeding Olive Ridley sea turtles on Odisha coast near Kendrapara district.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Turtles Face Walls of Death
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, drift gillnets, bi-catch, death, endangered, animaladvocates, animalwelfare, animals, animalcruelty, wildlife, wildanimals, protection )

Cal
- 221 days ago - act.oceana.org
Drift gillnets killing endangered turtles, whales and more--Leatherback turtles are the ocean's biggest sea turtles and are masterful endurance swimmers - but these unique creatures are no match for drift gillnets.
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Action Alert: Tell Walmart to Start Selling Sustainably Caught Canned Tuna
Animals  (tags: action alert, sign the petition, Walmart, fishing practices, destructive, sea turtles, rays, sharks, switch to sustainable practices, greenpeace )

Brian
- 225 days ago - secure3.convio.net
What's in a can of Walmart's 'Great Value' tuna has been caught in the some of the most destructive ways imaginable. These destructive fishing practices kill tens of thousands of sharks, sea turtles, rays and other species. Please, sign the petition.
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Two Big Wins For Wildlife!
Animals  (tags: conservation, environment, dolphins, sea turtles, NWF, animalrights, protection, wildlife )

Nancy
- 327 days ago - online.nwf.org
Thanks to the persistent voices of hundreds of thousands of wildlife advocates like you, moments ago Congress passed a Transportation Package that includes the potential for the largest investment in wildlife conservation in U.S. history and two very...
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Save Sea Turtles From Drowning ACTION US
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, wildlife, animal rights, ecosystems, protection, endangered, TEDs )

Nancy
- 327 days ago - act.oceana.org
A new proposed regulation will require all shrimp trawlers in the Gulf and southeast Atlantic to use TEDs. This new rule will save lives--if it goes through. Sign TODAY to tell the National Marine Fisheries Service that you support new regulations to...
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ACTION ALERT: Save Sea Turtles From Drowning! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, trapped, shrimp trawls, nets, drowned, killed, laws, protection )

Simone
- 330 days ago - secure.defenders.org
Tens of thousands of endangered and threatened sea turtles are accidentally trapped by shrimp trawls each year. And without Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) -- special equipment that provides sea turtles an escape -- many face the grim fate of drowning
18 comments
Clean Water for Healthy Animals
Animals  (tags: environment, animalwelfare, conservation, habitat, oil spills, sea turtles, fish, salmon, climate, CO2, carbon dioxide, seawater, freshwater, ice, water vapor, acid rain, tar sands, keystone xl, Ogallala Aquifer, drinking water, irrigation, wildlife )

Deb
- 430 days ago - bellaonline.com
Water is the only compound on Earth to exist in liquid, solid, and gaseous forms. Each of these naturally occurring conditions are vital to sustaining animal life.
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INDIA: Olive Ridley Turtles Start Mass Nesting in Odisha
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, GoodNews, turtles, sea turtles, endangered, wildlife, wildanimals, goodnews, environment )

Cal
- 449 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Over 1000 female Olive Ridley, an endangered species, climbed the shore and laid eggs in the sandy beach, about 50 km from here.
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Sea Turtle May Become California's Official Marine Reptile
Animals  (tags: animals, sea turtles, animalwelfare, goodnews, GoodNews, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, humans, habitat )

Cal
- 455 days ago - latimes.com
Bill would make the endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle the state's official marine reptile, joining the garibaldi (marine fish), California poppy (flower), and saber-toothed cat (fossil).
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