Climage change and commercial fishing: a one-two punch for sea turtles

Source: Oceana
"Oceana experts fear that optimistic preliminary estimates of the 2008 sea turtle nesting season - which formally ends Friday, October 31 - fail to express the dire status of the species. Oceana continues to call upon the U.S. government for increased protections of sea turtle populations that are threatened with, or in danger of, extinction. Nesting data from the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, the most important nesting habitat for loggerhead sea turtles in the United States, shows that although we are seeing a slight rise in nesting from dismal 2007 levels, the long-term trend illustrates an enormous decline."