Finally, some good news: in danger of extinction are recovering because conservation efforts seem to be working.
TO paper Published earlier this month in the Editorial of Sciences between research reveals that more than half of the 48 “regional management units” surveyed (RMU), or groups of sea turtles that share the same habitat and face similar population threats from around the world, show signs of recovery. While some individual species are still at risk of extinction, global trends highlight an encouraging improvement.
The researchers, including the Wildlife Ecologist, Bryan Wallace of Ecolibrium, wrote that the survey “The results demonstrate the apparent efficacy of many existing conservation strategies”, and that “several cases of favorable and improved conservation status at the RMU scale” highlighted. According to the results, the population of these RMU increased “on average” and “the impact scores of the threat improved for almost double RMU (53%) that worsened (28%)”.
There are only seven species of sea turtles, also known as sea turtles, in the world. Six of them are classified as threatened or endangeredWith the seventh flatback turtles, not included Due to insufficient data. Despite the limited number of species, sea turtles live in many of the world’s oceans in numerous diverse habitats, according to the study. As expected, most threats for sea turtles are caused by humans, which include climate change, incidental capture of fishing, loss of habitat, plastic pollution, collisions with marine vessels, coastal developments and poaching for the consumption and trade of TortoShell.
There are also nuances in these new promising data. The Pacific Ocean houses most of the sea turtles that face high risk threats, while most populations with low -risk threats are in the Atlantic. In addition, “the only Kemp’s Ridley Lepidochelys Kempi RMU had the highest species level level risk score, while risk scores and threats to lute forests were the highest among the species with multiple RMU, “the researchers wrote. In fact, Kemp’s ridiculos are ridiculous are ridiculous Most marine turtles in danger of the worldAccording to the national parks service, and the marine turtles of the contraction suffer from decrease in nesting populations in the Pacific.
In the US. All sea turtles are now protected by the law of endangered speciesand the International Commerce Convention of Endangered Species and Wild Flora (Quotations) prohibits international trade of marine turtle species and its parts.
“Many of the turtle populations have returned, although some have not done so,” said Duke Stuart Pimm, who did not participate in the investigation, to the Associated press. “In general, the history of marine turtle is one of the true success stories of conservation.” While it is important to maintain a realistic vision of the persistent harmful impact of humanity on sea turtles, the survey is proof that conservation efforts cause positive changes and, hopefully, will inspire more efforts. We cannot fix everything we destroy, but when we try to get really positive results.
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