Once Abundant, Turtles Now Disappearing From Loxahatchee Groves
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By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  May 27--LOXAHATCHEE GROVES -- The town of "turtle waters" is losing its turtles.
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A new study finds more than a thousand types of plant, bird, mammal and invertebrate are now endangered.
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Several species of sea turtles in Malaysia could vanish in a few years, largely due to illegal poaching of the creatures and their eggs, scientists warned on Wednesday.
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Scientists think they may at last know why the world's largest leatherback turtle was washed up on a Welsh beach.
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JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. - One of three turtles at the new Georgia Sea Turtle Center had surgery on Monday, only two days after the center opened. Nick, one of three loggerhead sea turtles at the facility, has been at the center since he was rescued with injuries in May off Cumberland Island.
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Scientists tracked a leatherback turtle that swam from Indonesia to Oregon and back to Hawaii in an epic 13,000-mile search for food Â research they hope will boost international efforts to save the endangered species.
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Ponds and swamps are becoming eerily silent. The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the globe, a phenomenon likened to the extinction of dinosaurs.
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By DREW DIXON  An island is literally being removed just south of Atlantic Boulevard between the Intracoastal Waterway and Neptune Beach to make way for a return of wetlands.
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By DORIE TURNER  ATLANTA - Ponds and swamps are becoming eerily silent.  The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the globe, a phenomenon likened to the extinction of dinosaurs.
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Scientists warn that the Malaysian populations of several species of sea turtles are on the brink of collapse and could disappear without urgent action to eliminate poaching and other dangers.
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The mass nestings of leatherback turtles on Malaysia's beaches was once one of nature's great spectacles but since 2000, not a single baby leatherback has scampered to the sea.
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Scientists and conservationists called on Pacific countries Friday to step up efforts to protect leatherback turtles that are on the brink of extinction.
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By Keith Rogers  By KEITH ROGERS  REVIEW-JOURNAL  Wildfires fueled by invasive weeds in the Mojave Desert have taken a toll on federally protected desert tortoises, and scientists studying the problem need another year to gather data to chart the right course of action.
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State conservation officials have proposed setting a 10-week hunting season for snapping turtles, while establishing both size and bag limits to protect the reptile that was named the state turtle last year.
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Five months after the first phase of his trek from the world's largest aquarium to his native home off the Georgia coast, Dylan the sea turtle is taking his time finishing the journey.
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At least 20 endangered sea turtles have washed up dead along the southern Bangladesh coast over the last week.
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The number of loggerhead turtle nests was substantially lower in 2007 than in past years, according to preliminary numbers from scientists statewide.