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ETI - Turtles of the World: Information
ETI - Turtles of the World. These pages provide basic information about turtles, plus a sample of the Turtles of the World ... best applied to terrestrial turtles. Terrapin is usually applied to edible, more or less aquatic, hard-shelled turtles. left: Homopus signatus cafer - ... also range far poleward in these waters. In maximum size, adult turtles range from less than 10 cm (Homopus signatus) to ...
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ITEC Conservation Programs
As little as 40 years ago, hawksbill were still abundant in the waters of the archipelago. Due to the over harvest of both turtle eggs and adult turtles ... , pasture or crop conversion, or in the taking of fish, lobster, crab or sea turtles. Although marine turtles, their eggs and products (oils, tortoiseshell jewelry) are strictly protected by Panamanian law, there ...
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SEA TURTLES ARE ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES
TURTLES ARE ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES Sea turtle populations have been seriously reduced worldwide through a number of human influences. Overdeveloped coastal areas have reduced natural nesting habitats. Capture of adult turtles ... listed officially as endangered and the Florida population of Loggerhead sea turtles are considered threatened. Briefly, these laws state that: "No person may take, ...
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HATCHLING SEA TURTLES
Therefore most of the nests in Broward County were, in the past ... ,000 hatchlings will survive (anywhere from 20-50 years) to become an adult sea turtle. The maximum age of adult turtles is unknown, but some have been kept in captivity longer than 50 ...
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KTTC: Rehabilitation and Recovery of Turtles At Risk
In the natural state, adult turtles have an extremely LOW mortality rate- only 1% per year. In a healthy population 99% of adult turtles survive each year! Turtles do not compensate for an ... This explains why roads are having such a terrible impact on turtles throughout North America. Even small numbers of adult turtles killed each year are contributing to the decline of most species, ...
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WWF - Marine turtles
Decades to reach maturity It takes decades for surviving juveniles to reach maturity and start to breed, and adult turtles must live to reproduce over ... Effective conservation means protecting turtles at all stages of their life cycle. Protecting nesting beaches calls for action at the local level, and protecting juvenile and adult turtles in oceanic waters ...
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The Georgia Sea Turtle Center Rescues and Rehabilitates Injured Sea Turtles and Educates About These Endangered Species
Georgia, biologists must scramble to find room in suitable centers in neighboring states. Most commonly, the live turtles in need of treatment are older sub-adult and mature adult turtles. Because they are close to or currently of reproductive age, these turtles are especially valuable ...
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ETI - Turtles of the World: Temperature-dependent sex determination
(XY, Chelidae), Staurotypus (XY, Kinosternidae), and Siebenrockiella (XY) and Kachuga smithii (ZW) (Bataguridae), turtles lack heteromorphic sex chromosomes (either XY male heterogamety, or ZW female heterogamety); their ... Chelydra). Pattern I occurs chiefly in turtles in which the adult females are larger than adult males; Pattern II is found mainly in turtles with females smaller than males or ...
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Marine Turtles - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
U.S. waters: green, hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, leatherback, loggerhead, and olive ridley. Although sea turtles live most of their lives in the ocean, adult females must return to beaches on land to lay their eggs. They often migrate long distances between foraging grounds and nesting beaches. Status of Marine Turtles All 7 species of marine turtles ...
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Threats to Marine Turtles - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Marine debris is a continuing problem for marine turtles. Marine turtles living in the pelagic (open ocean) environment commonly ingest or become ... near the beach adversely affects both nesting and hatchling sea turtles. Specifically, artificial lighting may deter adult female turtles from emerging from the ocean to nest and can disorient ...
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