Sea Turtles of Okinawa

Ghost nets

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By jhjanicki on Monday,January 30th, 2017 in Awareness, Conservation, Ghost nets, No Comments

This new art piece created by the Okinawa-based artist Hazel Cruzado depicts a sea turtle entangled in a ghost net. Ghost nets are abandoned or discarded fishing nets, they can float in ocean currents for years or decades, traveling huge distances. Every year millions of marine animals including turtles, birds, sharks, rays, dugongs, dolphins, and […]

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Loggerhead nest sites in Japan are a conservation priority

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By jhjanicki on Friday,January 27th, 2017 in Awareness, Conservation, Research, No Comments

When a species is so widely distributed, how do you determine the most vulnerable areas where conservation efforts should be prioritized? For some wide-ranging species, it is difficult to determine conservation priorities on a species level, instead individual populations should be the basic unit for assessment. Sea turtles are one such creatures, they also exhibit […]

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