Unrecorded West Indian Nesting Sites for the Leatherback and Hawksbill Sea Turtles, Dermochelys coriacea and Eretmochelys i. imbricata
Caldwell D and Rathjen W. 1969. Unrecorded West Indian Nesting Sites for the Leatherback and Hawksbill Sea Turtles, Dermochelys coriacea and Eretmochelys i. imbricata. Copeia. 1969(3):622-623
The short article states that the most effective way to curve the possibility of extinction for all sea turtles is to protect females that come on the beaches to lay their eggs, as well as the sea turtle hatchlings.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Caldwell, David; Rathjen, Warren
- Units
- SFCN
- Keywords
- Babies, Breeding, Clutch, Nesting, Protected, Threatened, young