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Mexico risks U.S. trade embargo after deaths of more than 700 endangered loggerhead sea turtles

Mexico risks U.S. trade embargo after deaths of more than 700 endangered loggerhead sea turtles

Mexico faces the threat of a trade embargo from the United States for failing to protect endangered North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles from getting entangled in fishing gear off the Baja California’s Gulf of Ulloa. Last week state government officials in Mexico reported that 705 loggerheads have stranded dead along a 30-mile shoreline so far this year… Source: Center for Biological Diversity

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