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2. 'It's our sea turtle': A look at the history of Kemp's ridley ...

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   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.

3. Rare sea turtle found alive and well in Mexico, seven years ...

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   Kemp’s ridley turtles, first discovered in the 1880s, are the smallest sea turtles, the DNR says. They typically weigh about 100 pounds. They typically weigh about 100 pounds.

4. Sea Turtle Restoration Project - Wikipedia

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   The focus of this program is protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle through the enforcement of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) in shrimp nets and the development of a Kemp's ridley marine reserve that is off limits to commercial fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2008 a record-breaking season occurred with ...

5. Kemp's ridley sea turtle - Wikipedia

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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 ...

6. Scientists at work: Helping endangered sea turtles, one ... - AOL

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   Kemp's ridley sea turtles are an endangered species that live and nest in the Gulf of Mexico. National Park Service/WikimediaCommons“Help! I’m fishing and just caught a huge sea turtle. She ...

7. Ridley sea turtle - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Nearly 1,000 sea turtles wash up on Cape beaches each year ...

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   Spectators give a wide berth as a rehabilitated Kemp's ridley sea turtle heads towards the water line at West Dennis Beach in June 2023. It was one of a group found cold-stunned on Cape beaches ...

9. Why Volunteers Collected a Half-Ton of Fishing Line

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   A bronze Kemp’s ridley statue and a mural depicting the Gulf’s five sea turtle species also stand locally as symbols of advocacy and education. “The Kemp’s ridley is a tiny turtle,” says ...