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Animals News tagged with sea turtles

ACTION ALERT: Prevent the Deaths of Thousands of Sea Turtles!!
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, pollution, commerican fisheries, trawls, killed, endangered, protection )

Simone
- 10 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Untargeted or discarded catch from commercial fisheries, also known as bycatch, is an enormous problem throughout the world. Trawl fisheries indiscriminately catch everything in their path, including sea turtles! The National Marine Fisheries Service
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Loggerheads in Danger: 2009 Nesting Data Shows Alarming Decrease
Animals  (tags: animals, turtles, wildlife, sea turtles, oceans )

Katie
- 19 days ago - enn.com
Oceana announced yesterday that 2009 was one of the worst years on record for loggerhead sea turtle nesting from North Carolina to Florida. In Florida for example, loggerhead nesting decreased by more than 15 percent in 2009.
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Tell Congress: Sea Turtles Need More Protection to Survive-Take Action!
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, protections, environment, extinction, habitat, endangered )

Tierney
- 24 days ago - takeaction.oceana.org
Urge your representatives to support new, comprehensive protections for sea turtles that will work on the land and at sea. The continued existence of sea turtles depends on it.
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Gumbo Limbo in Boca Raton to Be Site of Sea Turtle Hospital --
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, rehabilitation, sealife, rescued, Florida, protection )

Raffi
- 48 days ago - sun-sentinel.com
For the last 25 years, the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center has been a tourist attraction and a place where students study marine life. Now, this coastal and marine preserve on North Ocean Boulevard soon could take the additional role of a haven for sick
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Sign On to Save Sea Turtles ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sea turtles, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 52 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Support the "Egg = Life" campaign. Help WWF to save marine turtles by signing our petition today.
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Bahamas Outlaws Killing of All Sea Turtles
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, sea turtles, Bahamas, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 70 days ago - ecoworldly.com
The Bahamas Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources gives full protection to all marine turtles found in Bahamian waters, outlawing the killing, possession, and sale of the turtles.
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Help Recovery Efforts Continue for Endangered Sea Turtles ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sea turtles, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 95 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Already listed as an endangered species, the sea turtle is now at risk of losing its most important nesting grounds. Please speak up today to help protect a critical habitat of this endangered wildlife.
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Tell the Bahamas to Stop Killing Sea Turtles ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sea turtles, Bahamas, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, killing, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 132 days ago - animalrights.change.org
While you may think of the Bahamas as a place of great natural beauty, believe it or not, it is perfectly legal there to kill every species of sea turtle except the hawksbill. Since turtles are highly migratory, what happens in the Bahamas affects
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Thai Navy Gives Sea Turtles Some Protection- VIDEO
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, . thailand navy, habitat, protection, conservation )

Simone
- 139 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Sea turtles have to battle humans hungry for their meat or eggs and fungal infections to survive, but in Thailand, the endangered species have the navy on their side. Every year, dozens of mature sea turtles come ashore on Khram Island, an isolated
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Protect Sea Turtles From Trawl Fisheries
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, sea turtles, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 149 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Sea turtles have been swimming in the world's oceans for more than 100 million years. While they have been able to survive many challenges, sea turtles are not equipped to withstand the threats that humans pose.
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Activists Sue to Protect Sea Turtles Off US Coasts
Animals  (tags: animals, sea turtles, lawsuit, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 164 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Environmentalists want a federal judge to force fisheries managers to take action on lawsuits seeking stronger protections for sea turtles
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Help Keep Florida Waters Safe for Sea Turtles ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sea turtles, Florida, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 164 days ago - oceanconservancy.org
Loggerhead sea turtles feed year-round in the shallow waters off Florida's west coast. Yet their numbers are declining, in part because their feeding grounds are prime fishing grounds for grouper and other reef fish. Miles and miles of hooks crisscross
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Your Morning Adorable: Baby Sea Turtles Released in Mexico (It's World Turtle Day!) Video!
Animals  (tags: animals, sea turtles, released, Mexico, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 168 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
It's World Turtle Day, and we can't think of a better way of celebrating our shell-wearing friends than by watching a troupe of the little guys released on a beach in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.
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Ga. Spotters See First Sea Turtle Nests of Season
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, nests, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 178 days ago - examiner.com
Wildlife conservationists are finding the first sea turtle nests of the year in coastal Georgia, where biologists are encouraged by record numbers during the last nesting season.
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Endangered Green Sea Turtle Rescued for a Second Time- From a Car
Animals  (tags: animals, sea turtles, rescued, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 182 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
One green sea turtle has been on quite a journey during the past year. After being stranded with a shell wound in April 2008, the turtle was rescued and rehabilitated at Miami Seaquarium, before being released back into the wild in March 2009, only to
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