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Marine turtle

Sea turtles of São Tomé: Selling what can’t be sold

20/03/2017

Today I bring you my latest blogpost on the National Geographic Voices blog! It talks about the work I have being doing with ATM, a Portuguese NGO dedicated to the conservation of marine turtles in Portuguese speaking countries.  We have been working on a social marketing campaign to reduce the demand for sea turtle meat … [Read more…]

Posted in: In the popular press Tagged: Africa, behaviour change, bushmeat, campaign, demand reduction, Marine turtle, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sea turtle, Social Marketing, widllife trade

Increase in marine turtle predation by Costa Rican jaguars

03/05/2012

  A recent paper in Oryx has highlighted an interesting conservation conundrum. What do you do when one endangered species is preying on another endangered species? An analysis of data from the Tortuguero National Park, led by Diogo Veríssimo (Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent) looked at population dynamics and the increasing predation of endangered … [Read more…]

Posted in: In the popular press, Publications Tagged: Costa Rica, Jaguar, Marine turtle, Oryx, predation, Sea turtle, Tortuguero

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