leatherbacks

The leatherbacks are a highly publicized target of poachers and conservationists alike, who try to outmaneuver each other to either exploit or protect the turtles and their prized eggs.

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Don't know the proper name for what I hunt, I learned it from my dad many years ago, we just call the earlier ones "the little brown ones" and the later ones "leatherbacks".

It's getting to be that time of year, I love to hunt for mushrooms. It's like the rite of spring for me. 2009

Don't know the proper name for what I hunt, I learned it from my dad many years ago, we just call the earlier ones "the little brown ones" and the later ones "leatherbacks".

It's getting to be that time of year, I love to hunt for mushrooms. It's like the rite of spring for me. 2009

Oceana has been campaigning for increased protections for Pacific leatherbacks since 2007.

Ted Danson: A Safe Haven for Leatherbacks Ted Danson 2012

"Despite extensive research carried out on leatherbacks, no one has really been sure about the journeys they take in the south Atlantic until now," he said.

Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters 2011

"Armed with a better understanding of migration patterns and preferences for particular areas of the ocean, the conservation community can now work toward protecting leatherbacks at sea, which has been previously difficult."

Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters 2011

"To generalise, all leatherbacks in the south Atlantic typically come from central and West African beaches," said Witt.

Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters 2011

If you watch leatherback hatchlings begin their journey to the sea as actress Kate Walsh did in the Virgin Islands a few years ago for Oceana, you can see that leatherbacks already face very long odds to reach adulthood, even without additional threats from humans.

Ted Danson: A Safe Haven for Leatherbacks Ted Danson 2012

"Most nesting of leatherbacks happens in Gabon on those central west African beaches."

Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters 2011

Brendan Godley, of the University of Exeter and a co-author of the work, said all of the routes identified by researchers take the leatherbacks through areas at high risk from fisheries, so there was a real danger to the Atlantic population.

Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters 2011