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As freezing temperatures battered the Atlantic coast in December, thousands of ocean creatures fought to stay warm. Among them were hundreds of Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, a critically endangered ...
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 ...
The aquarium is currently caring for more than 200 turtles at its sea turtle hospital in Quincy, many of which are the critically endangered Kemp’s ridley species - the most endangered and the ...
In 2011, the Kemp's ridley sea turtle was on track to lose the "endangered" label by 2024. But population growth has stalled.
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 ...
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.
Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) CR; Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) VU; Family Dermochelyidae (leatherback sea turtle) Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) VU (East Pacific Ocean subpopulation - i.e. Hawaiian Is.: CR, West Pacific Ocean subpopulation: CR, Northwest Atlantic Ocean subpopulation: EN
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.