Over the past 3 decades, the status of sea turtles and the need for their protection to aid
population recovery have increasingly captured the interest of government agencies, non …

In 2010, an international group of 35 sea turtle researchers refined an initial list of more than
200 research questions into 20 metaquestions that were considered key for management …

Modern surveys of the Atlantic coast of Africa for sea turtles began as early as 1957 by Carr
(1957), Carr & Hirth (1962) and Brongersma (1995). Research and conservation efforts over …

In 1995 the IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group (MTSG) published A Global Strategy
for the Conservation of Marine Turtles to provide a blueprint for efforts to conserve and …

This book explores in detail threats to the world's sea turtle population to provide sound,
scientific conclusions on which dangers are greatest and how they can be addressed most …

This book attempts to give a unified synopsis of the current state of turtle conservation. This
is an ambitious objective, given the taxonomic variety (almost 300 different species) and …

As detailed in the introductory chapter by Pritchard, sea turtles have a long and ancient
history. Sea turtles arose in the early Mesozoic, and for the next 100 million years, during the …

Winner, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards in Biological Sciences Winner,
National Outdoor Book Award, Nature and the Environment Outstanding Academic Title …

All six species of sea turtles found in US waters are listed as endangered or threatened, but
the exact population sizes of these species are unknown due to a lack of key information …

Although sea turtles have received substantial focus worldwide, research on the immature
life stages is still relatively limited. The latter is of particular importance, given that a large …