Good News! Endangered Sea Turtle Populations May Be Recovering

Finally, some good news: endangered sea turtles are recovering because ome conservation efforts seem to be working. A paper published earlier this month in Inter-Research Science Publisher reveals that more than half of the 48 surveyed “regional management units” (RMUs), 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, the global trends highlight a heartening improvement. The researchers, including wildlife ecologist Bryan Wallace from Ecolibrium wrote that the survey “results demonstrate the apparent efficacy of many existing conservation strategies,” and that it highlighted “several cases of favorable — and improving — conservation status at the RMU scale.” According to the results the population of those RMUs increased “on average” and “threat impact scores improved for nearly twice as many RMUs (53%) as worsened (28%).” There are o ... Read full article.