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Australian Sea Turtle Slaughter Explained   video
Animals  (tags: Sea turtles, endangered, cruelty, suffering, wildlife )

Brian
- 485 days ago - youtube.com
Australian legal loopholes that allow massive quantities of poaching to occur. Sea turtles and dugongs are legally slaughtered in large numbers by anyone who calls themselves indigenous. The complaints aren't loud enough! We must fight! LOUDLY!
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GOOD NEWS! 42 Million Sea Turtles Born in 2010-11 Nesting Season in Mexico
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, goodnews, GoodNews, sea turtles, endangered, humans, protection, habitat, wildlife, wildanimals, animaladvocates )

Cal
- 511 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Mexican authorities recorded a total of 42.2 million Olive Ridley, Leatherback and Kemp's Ridley sea turtle births during the 2010-11 nesting season, authorities said.
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The World's Most Threatened and Healthiest Sea Turtle Populations Revealed
Animals  (tags: turtles, sea turtles, animalwelfare, animals, endangered, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, AnimalWelfare, humans, habitat, environment )

Cal
- 593 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
: Almost half - 45 per cent - of the world's most threatened sea turtle populations are found in the northern Indian Ocean, according to a new study
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Loggerhead Sea Turtle Protection Modified
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, protection, law, wildlife protection, sea turtles, wildlife, wildanimals, AnimalWelfare, animalrights )

Cal
- 605 days ago - latimes.com
Instead of being considered a single threatened species, they are grouped in nine population segments, five of which are listed as endangered.
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ACTION ALERT: Take Action for Wolves, Sea Turtles and Manatees! PLEASE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: laws, legalisation, wild animals, threatened, protection, wolves, sea turtles, manatees )

Simone
- 645 days ago - all-creatures.org
Speak out for imperiled animals. In April 2011, the U.S. Congress tucked an unprecedented "wolf de-listing rider" into the federal budget bill and it passed. Write your representative now and urge him or her to oppose the proposed
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Protect Sea Turtles From Coastal Development Subsidies PLEASE SIGN!
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, wildlife, Florida, petition )

Andrea
- 646 days ago - change.org
As a result of a lawsuit settlement, FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program is preparing a biological assessment to be reviewed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service. The NFIP has provided insurance coverage
15 comments
ACTION ALERT: Demand the Shrimp Trawl Fishery Stop Killing Sea Turtles! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, gulf of mexico, trawls, legalisation, protection, oceans )

Simone
- 651 days ago - all-creatures.org
The Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery has been the leading killer of endangered sea turtles in the U.S. since the 1980s, drowning thousands of innocent sea turtles each year. Take action today to demand an immediate overhaul of this fishery to increase
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Stop Congress Cuts to Protect Sea Turtles From Speeding Vehicles in Texas ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sea turtles, protection, environment, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 659 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
Take action right now, call and email Congress to stop cuts to the Department of Interior funding for the Padre Island National Seashore to protect endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles. The cuts would stop their efforts to limit the speed of drivers on
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Action Alert, Speak Up for Sea Turtles
Animals  (tags: Action alert, animals, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, animalrights, sea turtles, enendangered, wildlife )

Beatrice
- 677 days ago - nvwf.org
Even before the BP oil disaster, sea turtles in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico were at risk from loss of nesting habitat, degradation of their marine habitats, and entanglement in fishing gear. Loggerhead sea turtles are the most abundant of
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ACTION ALERT: Please Grant Royal Protection for Sea Turtles Visiting the Kingdom of Tonga! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: kindgom of tonga, sea turtles, protection, threatened, killed, disappearing, conservation, laws, welfare )

Simone
- 690 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Most species of marine Sea Turtles are endangered, or critically endangered, globally. Despite this fact it is still legal to catch and kill these ancient mariners in the Kingdom of Tonga. This petition asks the King of Tonga, his Royal Highness King
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Save Cocos Island National Park From Longline Fishing PETITION
Animals  (tags: protection, endangered, sea turtles, sharks )

Nancy
- 695 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
The area is one of the very few places on earth where ocean life still thrives as it once did everywhere on the planet, yet tens of thousands of endangered sea turtles and sharks are being hooked and killed there every year.
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Lawsuit Launched to Protect Gulf of Mexico Sea Turtles From Drowning in Shrimp Trawls
Animals  (tags: SEA TURTLES, sea turtles, death, animalwelfare, animals, humans, protection, endangered, rescued, suffering, wildlife, wildanimals, animaladvocates, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty )

Cal
- 715 days ago - enn.com
Conservation groups notified the National Marine Fisheries Service of their intent to sue the agency and three Gulf of Mexico states for failing to protect endangered sea turtles from entanglement and drowning in shrimp trawls.
12 comments
Save the Dwindling Leatherback Sea Turtle Population! PETITION
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, leatherback turtle, oceans, extinction, petition, protection, humans, ethics, animals, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, animalcruelty, animalrights, wildanimals, wildlife, endangered )

S
- 719 days ago - theanimalrescuesite.com
The legendary leatherback sea turtle has existed for hundreds of millions of years -- and is now in grave danger of extinction.
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Save the Dwindling Leatherback Sea Turtle Population!
Animals  (tags: animals, endangered, protection, wildanimals, sea turtles, leatherback sea turltes, wildlife )

Agnes
- 739 days ago - therainforestsite.com
The legendary leatherback sea turtle has existed for hundreds of millions of years -- and is now in grave danger of extinction
36 comments
Atlantic Turtles Threatened By Man-Made Chemicals
Animals  (tags: environment, animalwelfare, animals, pollution, sea turtles, endangered, wildlife, protection )

Cal
- 757 days ago - bermudasun.bm
Loggerhead turtles could be under threat from man-made chemicals, research has revealed.
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