National Geographic USA - 10.2019
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THREAT: POACHING Asian elephant, Elephas maximus (EN) Early in the 20th century, perhaps 100,000 elephants roamed across Asia. S ...
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VANISHING 61 3. 2. THREAT: DEFORESTATION For tree-dwelling lemurs, there’s no life without the forest—or Madagas- car, their onl ...
Green sea turtles congregate near a dock in the Bahamas. They were so numerous during Columbus’s day that “it seemed the ships w ...
US BY CRAIG WELCH PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS P. PESCHAK VANISHING: A SPECIAL ISSUE SEA TURTLES HAVE ROAMED THE OCEANS FOR 100 MILLION ...
Blood seeps from a dying leatherback harpooned by an indigenous hunter near Indonesia’s Kei Islands. Leatherbacks are the larges ...
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A flatback sea turtle kicks up sand while digging a nest on Crab Island, off Australia’s northeast coast. Indig- enous rangers w ...
SEE ALL THAT’S HOPEFUL and appalling about the way we treat sea turtles, there’s no better place to start than the Burj Al Arab ...
But the reptilian miseries unspooling in this epi- center of consumption reveal much about the ills we humans heap on these crea ...
year found that turtle populations protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act were on the upswing. Hawaii’s green turtles, lon ...
Ida Mamarika and her husband, Christopher Maminyamanja, visit a cave on an island off northern Australia where a gallery of Abor ...
Once or twice a month during Costa Rica’s rainy season, female olive ridley sea turtles come ashore by the tens of thousands and ...
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Ribs Fat CONSERVATION STATUS Esophagus Critically endangered Endangered Vulnerable Insufficient data Shell length 3.5 ft (maximu ...
Shell length: about 7 ft Weight: up to 2 tons Stomach 300 ft 3 ft 2.3 ft 835 ft Brain Salt glands Skin Bone Lungs Liver 6 ft 4,0 ...
To fight poachers in Costa Rica, researcher Helen Pheasey fits decoy eggs with GPS transmitters, then slips them into sea turtle ...
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