SUFB 756: Leatherback Sea Turtles Nesting Season In Nicaragua Results In Zero Turtles

How To Protect The Ocean · Apr 15, 2019 · 10m

Fauna and Flora International has reported that zero leatherback sea turtles nested along the beaches in the Rio Escalente Chacocente Wildlife Reserve this past season. A result that has the scientists at FFI worried about the future of Leatherback Sea Turtles in the Eastern Pacific that once had 30-40 female individuals nest on the same beaches in the 1980s.

The rapid decline has been attributed to a boom in turtle and egg poaching during the 80s and 90s as well as adults getting killed in legal and illegal fishing nets.

5-10 individual female turtles nested on the same beaches in 2018…