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Developing ecotourism for the survival of sea turtles [PDF]

, 2000
Discusses generally why humans should bother to conserve sea turtles. In doing so, it considers both economic and non-economic reasons and outlines threats to the existence of sea turtles and ways in which tourism may either contribute to the ...
Tisdell, Clem, Wilson, Clevo
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Connectivity between sea turtles off Jeju Island on the Korean Peninsula, and other populations in the western Pacific

Frontiers in Marine Science
The northwestern Pacific region is an important habitat for sea turtles, hosting five species out of seven. There is still limited information available about the sea turtle aggregations around the Korean Peninsula, which is the northern boundary for ...
Sook-Jin Jang, Sook-Jin Jang, Kyungsik Jo, Kyungsik Jo, Soojin Jang, Hideaki Nishizawa, Miyeon Kim, George Balazs, Jibin Im, Ho Young Suk, Byung-Yeob Kim, Taewon Kim, Taewon Kim   +12 more
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Sea Turtle Response to Climate Change: Analyzing Current and Predicting Future Impacts on Populations, Habitat, and Prey Populations [PDF]

, 2016
With the prediction of devastating global climate change effects for the near future, scientists are expanding their research and understanding of some of the most severely affected organisms.
Golden, Eva J
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The Knowledge and Attitudes on the Sea Turtles of Small Scale Fishermen in the Aegean Sea

Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2018
In this study, the level of knowledge of the sea turtles that encounter fishing gears from time to time and the attitudes of fishermen on the Turkish coast of the Aegean Sea to these living beings were investigated.
Akile Esenlioğulları Mete, Zafer Tosunoğlu, Hülya Sayğı, M. Hakan Kaykaç, Celalettin Aydın   +4 more
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Fishery - Related Mortality of Sea Turtles in India: An Overview [PDF]

, 2008
Coastal communities have exploited sea turtles for centuries. In the 1950s, organised fisheries were developed to capture turtles in many parts of the world; sea turtles were considered an important exploitable fishery resource due to their high ...
Rajagopalan, M, Vijayakumaran, K, Vivekanandan, E   +2 more
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Impact of swordfish fisheries on sea turtles in the Azores. [PDF]

, 2001
The surface longline fishery around the Azores targets swordfish (Xiphias gladius). Bycatch from this fishery includes loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) and occasionally leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) that are either hooked or ...
Bolten, Alan B., Ferreira, Rogério L., Martins, Helen R., Silva, Alexandre A.   +3 more
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Sea turtles [PDF]

Current Biology, 2006
Lohmann, Catherine M.F., Lohmann, Kenneth J.   +1 more
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Habitat use of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green (Chelonia mydas) turtles at the northern limit of their distribution range of the Northwest Pacific Ocean.

PLoS ONE
Verifying habitats, including the foraging and nesting areas for sea turtles, enables an understanding of their spatial ecology and successful planning of their conservation and management strategies.
Il-Hun Kim, Il-Kook Park, Daesik Park, Min-Seop Kim, In-Young Cho, Dongwoo Yang, Dong-Jin Han, Eunvit Cho, Won Joon Shim, Sang Hee Hong, Yong-Rock An   +10 more
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Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nest predation at Cape Range National Park [PDF]

, 2008
Most of the existing sea turtle populations worldwide are in decline. In particular, loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) are listed as endangered and loggerhead nesting populations in Eastern Australia have declined by 86% since the 1970s.
Bradley, J.S., O'Hara, A.J., Robertson, I., Trocini, S., Warren, K.   +4 more
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First record of the epizoic red seaweed Polysiphonia carettia Hollenberg in the Mediterranean Sea. [PDF]

, 2001
Primera cita del alga roja epizoica Polysiphonia carettia Hollenberg en el mar Mediterráneo Key words. Caretta caretta, epibionts, Mediterranean Sea, Polysiphonia carettia. Palabras claves.
Báez, José C., Camiñas-Hernandez, Juan Antonio, Conde Poyales, Francisco, Flores-Moya, Antonio, Valeiras, Julio   +4 more
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