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leatherback turtle
(redirected from Leatherback Sea Turtle)

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Noun1.leatherback turtle - wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapaceleatherback turtle - wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle
marine turtle, sea turtle - any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas
Dermochelys, genus Dermochelys - type genus of the Dermochelyidae: leatherback turtles


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If Costa Rica is among your gap year destinations, then help to save leatherback sea turtles from extinction at one of the most important remaining nesting areas in the Pacific Ocean.
The global leatherback sea turtle number of nesting females has gone from an estimated 115,000 in 1980 to somewhere between 26,000 to 43,000 recently.
The groups--the Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana, and the Turtle Island Restoration Network--maintain that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to meet a 12-month deadline for responding to three separate petitions that focused on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles in U.
 
 
 
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