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Green Sea Turtle: Named for Its Fat, Not Its Scales or Shell
The green sea turtle is among the most elegant marine ... Pacific region — including populations around Southeast Asia, Australia and the Indian Ocean islands — also show distinct physical ...
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First Nations, CDU Probe Northern Australia's Marine Crisis
A comparison of aerial surveys of green turtle nests between the 1990s and 2024 shows a decline in turtle nesting sites on Croker Island - a new ...
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Six turtle species that live in Australia are all vulnerable or endangered, but there's hope
Flatback (Natator depressus), Green (Chelonia mydas), and Hawksbill ... reports a rebound in nesting Loggerhead Turtle numbers. The Australian Government's Threatened Species Action Plan includes ...
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Sea turtles are surviving—despite us
visit a cave on an island off northern Australia where a gallery of Aboriginal rock art believed to be at least 5,500 years old includes an image of a green sea turtle. Mamarika’s clan reveres ...
Far North has almost half of NZ’s turtle strandings
An unusually high number of turtle strandings has kept Far North Department of Conservation staff busy, with 19 washed ashore in Te Hiku over spring and summer, with some set to be released back into ...
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Green sea turtle populations are already becoming increasingly female due to a warming climate. Now pollution may also be contributing to unbalanced sex ratios in the species.
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Green Sea Turtle
The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...