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Species distribution:
Green Sea Turtle - Chelonia mydas
Distribution and population
estimates for the Green Sea Turtle - Chelonia mydas
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Distribution maps are included
for the eight marine turtle species. The estimations for populations are based
on figures extracted from the reference list shown below.
Distribution
and population:
- Rookeries:(Agardy - BBC Wildlife
1992) Figures are estimated nesting females.
- Hawaii (Less than 1,000)
- Quintana Roo, Mexico (less
than 1,000)
- Mexico (wcoast) (20,000)
- Costa Rica and Venezuela (4,000?)
- Surinam (4,000)
- Brazil (3,000)
- Ascension island (1,000)
- Guinea Bissau (1,000)
- Eastern Mediterranean (less
than 1,000? not Agardy)
- Europa island (10,000)
- Seychelles (2,000), Comoros
(1,000)
- Somalia (3,000)
- Yemen (10,000)
- Oman and Masira (7,000)
- Thailand (1,000)
- Sumatra (25,000)
- Sarawak and Sabah (1,000)
- Western Australia (2,000)
- Raine island (80,000)
- Lacepede Islands (10,000)
- Range:(Limpus in Bjorndal)
- Widley distributed in tropical
and subtropical waters.
- Rarely nest in waters below
25 degrees C.
- Near continental coasts and
around islands.
- Rare in temperate waters.
- Along with hawksbill, the
most tropical of turtles.
- Population: (FAO)
- Some estimated population
figures shown above.
- Many populations on the decline,
mainly in Australasian region.
- Here, 100,000 green turtles
per annum harvested for meat.
- Near total egg harvesting
in Indonesia and Malaysia. (Sarawak Turtle Islands)
- Strong conservation in Sabah,
Hawaii and Florida have seen some recovery.
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References
used in distribution maps and population estimations.
- Agardy, T., Last Voyage of the
Ancient Mariner p30-37, BBC Wildlife December 1992,
- Bjorndal, Karen A. (Editor), Biology
and Conservation of Sea Turtles - (Smithsonian) 1995. (ISBN 1-56098-619-0)
- The FAO Species , Catalogue Vol.11.
Sea Turtles of the World, 1990. (ISBN 92-5-102891-5)
- Lutz , P. L. and Musick, J. A.,
The Biology of Sea Turtles - (Marine Science Series )1996. (ISBN 0-8493-8422-2)
- National Research Council, Decline
of the Sea Turtles , 1990. (ISBN 1-900455-005)
- Proceedings of the 15th Annual
Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, 1995.
- Proceedings of the 18th Annual
Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, 1998.
- Ripples, Jeff Sea Turtles: (World
Life Library) 1996. (ISBN 0-309-04247-X)
Caretta
caretta
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle
- Chelonia
mydas
- Green Sea Turtle