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December, 2009

  • 17 December

    Suit Filed to Stop Hawaii Longline Fishery From Tripling Sea Turtle Kill

    Deadly Hooks Also Snag Whales, Seabirds, and Sharks Today conservation groups Turtle Island Restoration Network, the Center for Biological Diversity, and KAHEA, all represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Honolulu challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service’s issuance last week of a rule that removes all …

  • 13 December

    Illegal fishing trawlers a threat to Olive Ridley turtles

    Illegal fishing using mechanized trawlers in Orissa coast is posing a serious threat to the endangered Olive Ridley turtles visiting the state every year for mass nesting. Illegal fishing using mechanized fishing trawlers from Andhra Pradesh came to light last week when a trawler was seized by forest personnel off …

November, 2009

  • 30 November

    Jakarta says No to governor’s request for turtle quota

    Chelonia mydas

    A controversial recommendation from Bali”s governor that a yearly quota of 1,000 turtles be set for ceremonial sacrifice now appears a dead issue following its rejection by the Central government in Jakarta. Despite pledges by Governor Pastika that the sacrificed turtles would not re-open the long-banned turtle trade in Bali …

  • 25 November

    60 dead turtles wash up on Orissa beach

    Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea). Credits: Wikipedia

    The carcasses of at least 60 Olive Ridley turtles – that in all likelihood fell victim to fishing trawlers – have been spotted on an Orissa beach in the past 20 days, a senior state wildlife official said Wednesday. The dead turtles were spotted at various places between the mouths …

September, 2009

  • 24 September

    Romantic beachfront proposal leads to the death of 60 turtle hatchlings

    Flickr: © murilocardoso

    A romantic marriage proposal on a Hilton Head Island beach Tuesday night had an unintended consequence — the death of about 60 federally protected loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings. A man had placed about 150 luminarias — bags with a lit candle inside — in the shape of a heart on …

  • 14 September

    Sunken ship threatens breeding turtles

    Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea)

    The mass breeding of India”s endangered Olive Ridley turtles could be under threat by iron ore and oil carried in a cargo ship that capsized off India”s east coast, a conservationist said on Friday. It was carrying about 25 000 tons of powdery iron ore fines and more than 900 …

  • 11 September

    Police in Vietnam free hundreds of endangered sea turtles

    Vietnamese police removed 849 sea turtles from a fish-farming cage of a man who was illegally raising them and released them into a nearby marine preserve, a police official said Friday. The man had bought the sea turtles several at a time from fishermen, said Vo Duc Thang, chief of …

  • 9 September

    Beach construction ‘killing’ baby turtles

    A construction boom in the Gulf of Kyparissia, in the Peloponnese, has caused the deaths of dozens of newborn loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the area, which is theoretically protected by the European Union, conservationists say. The lights on a new road linking the beach of Agiannaki to the …

August, 2009

  • 31 August

    Turtles killed for flippers

    Turtle populations are steadily being decimated, despite conservation efforts to protect them. Recently, Panama’s Marine Resources Authority (ARAP) seized a fisherman in possesion of turtle flippers in Coquira port in Chepo. The rest of the body of the turtle was nowhere to be found.

  • 31 August

    Bahamas set to ban catch and sale of sea turtles

    Soups, stews and pies flavored with chunks of sea turtle meat will soon be illegal across the 700 islands of the Bahamas, environmental activists and scientists said Sunday. Despite opposition from many fishermen, the Bahamas has amended fisheries laws to give full protection to all sea turtles found in the …

  • 24 August

    Loggerhead nests on Florida beaches keep dwindling

    From jacksonville.com

    Loggerhead sea turtles whose nests line Florida and Georgia beaches each summer could face “quasi-extinction” despite efforts to protect nesting grounds, federal scientists have concluded. The warning this month to the National Marine Fisheries Service comes as monitoring groups around Florida report an apparent drop in loggerhead nesting this year. …

  • 18 August

    Sea turtles under threat in Kerala coast

    Climate change coupled with construction of sea walls and infrastructure activities are threatening the habitat of sea-turtles, an endangered marine species, along the Kerala coast, say conservationists. The number of sea-turtles along the Kerala coast was fast dwindling in the last few years due to habitat destructions, poaching, marine debris …