A new study says that the risk poaching poses to endangered sea turtles is on the decline -- although data on the subject is scarce
A new study says that the risk poaching poses to endangered sea turtles is on the decline – although data on the subject is scarce. The study, published on September 7 in Global Change Biology, used a meta-analysis of documents published in the last three decades to estimate the number of sea turtles killed illegally over that time period.
“The long-term trend for sure is a decrease in take,” he said. “There’s been a huge movement to protect sea turtles over the past 50 years.” But, he added, “there are still some populations that aren’t doing well.” “There’s a lot that we don’t know,” Hutchinson said. Part of the problem is that the main metric sea turtle scientists rely on to monitor the health of the animals’ populations is nesting females, Hutchinson explained.
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