THE sight of an animal's dead body lying on a beach is a horrific one, and it is doubly tragic when the creature in question is from an endangered species.
LABUAN: A green sea turtle (Chelonia Mydas), with missing flippers and head, was discovered on Nagalang beach adjacent to Thai Beach Restaurant here over the weekend.
Sea turtles are harvested in many small-scale fisheries (SSFs), but few nations have quantified the impacts that SSFs are having on their sea turtle stocks. This study provides the first assessment on the catch composition, national harvest rates, and long-term trends in sea turtle catches in the Solomon Islands SSFs. Between October 2016 and May 2018, 10 community monitors located in eight of the nine provinces of the Solomon Islands were trained and employed to work alongside fishers in their respective communities to document, photograph, and georeference the reefs where sea turtles were harvested. Local ecological knowledge (LEK) surveys were then conducted with 32 experienced fishers to infer whether the harvest rates of sea turtles had changed in recent decades. Community monitors recorded information on 1,132 sea turtles that were harvested on 529 fishing trips: 1,119 sea turtles were identified to species level, with harvests consisting of 73.3% (n = 818) green sea turtles (Che
Guests and hosts of Six Senses Côn Đảo resort have recently witnessed the hatching of a very special arrival at the resort’s in-house incubation center: an exceptionally rare white sea turtle.
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