Coastal leatherback turtles reveal conservation hotspot

NJ Robinson, SJ Morreale, R Nel, FV Paladino - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
… largest reptile – the leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea – … leatherback turtles have
greatly complicated conservation … half of the nesting leatherbacks from an important rookery in …

Conservation hotspots for the turtles on the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean

HW Huang - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… Understanding the distribution of bycaught sea turtles could inform conservation … of sea
turtle bycatch, (2) analyze the distribution of sea turtle bycatch by species, (3) estimate sea turtle

Persistent leatherback turtle migrations present opportunities for conservation

GL Shillinger, DM Palacios, H Bailey, SJ Bograd… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
… -year satellite tracking data set for leatherback turtles (n = 46 turtles, 12,095 days) to describe
… of leatherback turtles, and are applicable to existing and future conservation strategies that …

A review of the importance of south-east Australian waters as a global hotspot for leatherback turtle foraging and entanglement threat in fisheries

GC Hays, M Morrice, JJ Tromp - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Leatherbacks do not nest, or only rarely, in … of leatherback turtle occurrence in south-east
(SE) Australia, drawing on sightings information as well as satellite tracking data from turtles

Predicting bycatch hotspots for endangered leatherback turtles on longlines in the Pacific Ocean

JH Roe, SJ Morreale, FV Paladino… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Declines result, in …
during behaviours at sea [3,4]. Leatherbacks are the most widely distributed of sea turtles in the …

Conservation hotspots for marine turtle nesting in the United States based on coastal development

MMPB Fuentes, C Gredzens, BL Bateman… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the continental United States are exposed to
coastal development and identified conservation hotspots … selected as conservation hotspots; …

Turtle hotspots: an analysis of the occurrence of tortoises and freshwater turtles in biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas, and turtle priority areas

RA Mittermeier, PP van Dijk… - … Conservation and …, 2015 - meridian.allenpress.com
… the effect and efficiency of turtle conservation efforts, we analyze … turtles in the priority
conservation areas established and refined by Conservation International, the biodiversity hotspots

[PDF][PDF] Long‐term residence of juvenile loggerhead turtles to foraging grounds: a potential conservation hotspot in the Mediterranean

P Casale, AC Broderick, D Freggi… - Aquatic Conservation …, 2012 - cyprusturtles.org
hotspot for loggerhead sea turtles in … sea turtle conservation of such hypothetical hotspots
deserves additional and specific research effort on the fine scale movements of juvenile turtles, …

Natal Origin and Spatiotemporal Distribution of Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) Strandings at a Foraging Hotspot in Temperate Waters of the Southwest …

GM Vélez-Rubio, L Prosdocimi, M López-Mendilaharsu… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
… on leatherbacks present in the territorial waters of Uruguay, despite the recognition of the
endangered conservation status of leatherbacks … and incidentally caught leatherback turtles in …

Loggerhead sea turtle abundance at a foraging hotspot in the eastern Pacific Ocean: implications for at-sea conservation

JA Seminoff, T Eguchi, J Carretta, CD Allen… - Endangered Species …, 2014 - int-res.com
… ridley turtles, 38 green turtles, 1 leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea, and 95 sea turtles
… The abundance estimates of these other sea turtle species will be reported elsewhere and …