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Saving the sea turtles of Anguilla: Combining scientific data with community perspectives to inform policy decisions

2022-04-01

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Historic over-exploitation and the more recent threats caused by fisheries by-catch, disease and climate change have left sea turtle populations in the Wider Caribbean at risk of extinction. In 1995, following regional declines in nesting and foraging populations, the island of Anguilla implemented a moratorium on the hunting of turtles. At the request of the Government of Anguilla for scientific data to either su...

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Literature Corpus work: 224b3972-a3ae-5c41-bb0c-74f9ba96f9fd
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109493

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