Sea Turtles of Okinawa

What is CITES and how does it affect sea turtles and other animals?

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By jhjanicki on Friday,September 30th, 2016 in Awareness, Conservation, Research, Wildlife Trade, No Comments

Sea turtles were first included in CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) in 1975. At that time, hundreds of thousands of sea turtles were killed every year for international trade. There are three appendices in CITES for which various threatened species are listed and their international trade […]

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Conservation efforts in rural Japan: Kumejima sea turtle museum

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By jhjanicki on Monday,September 19th, 2016 in Awareness, Conservation, No Comments

At the Kumejima turtle museum, I learned a lot about sea turtles in a more practical and real setting, in the sense that I gained my knowledge by interacting with experts and turtles instead of reading books and papers. For example, I learned that Loggerheads tend to be the most curious of the sea turtles, […]

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