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Kemp's ridley sea turtle is currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). [7] Egg harvesting and poaching first depleted the numbers of Kemp's ridley sea turtles, [21] but today, major threats include habitat loss, pollution, and entanglement in shrimping nets. Some major current conservation efforts are aimed towards ...
A Kemp's ridley hatchling, an endangered species of sea turtle, reaches the surf at Padre Island National Seashore during a public release on June 28, 2024, in Corpus Christi, Texas.
English: Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys kempii), 2 km south of Barra del Tordo, Municipality of Aldama, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Photographed on 19 April 2001 by William L. Farr. This image was originally photographed with film and later scanned from a print.
Kemp’s ridley turtles, first discovered in the 1880s, are the smallest sea turtles, the DNR says. They typically weigh about 100 pounds. Kemp’s ridleys have drab olive shells when they are ...
The Kemp's ridley sea turtles were on the brink of extinction in the 1960s with low numbers of 200 nesting individuals. Due to strict laws that protected their nesting sites in Mexico and altered fishing gear to avoid accidental capture of the Kemp's ridley, their numbers have increased to estimated an 7000–9000 nesting individuals today. The ...
Nearly all Kemp’s ridley sea turtles nest along one stretch of beach in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. In 1947, an estimated 40,000 turtles nested on Rancho Nuevo beach in just one day.
Two months after the 16 Kemp’s ridley sea turtles arrived in Clearwater, some were ready to be back in the open ocean. “We are excited to share that 11 of our Kemp’s ridley patients are ...
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