While there is only one species of leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), populations are often categorized by their oceanic regions. Pacific leatherback sea turtles, for example, are renowned for ...

At that depth, the leatherback swam deeper than the ... Another of their tagged turtles swam across the entire Pacific Ocean. Peter Waldie, a marine scientist who leads The Nature Conservancy ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network sued the National Marine Fisheries Service today for failing to protect Pacific leatherback sea turtles and ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and the Turtle Island Restoration Network sued the National Marine Fisheries Service on Thursday, accusing the federal agency of failing to protect endangered ...

WWF is working with a local community in Costa Rica to stop egg poaching of leatherback turtle nests. Costa Rica. April 2005.- WWF Central America works hard to save the endangered Pacific leatherback ...

Late on a January night in 1993 I found myself on a beach on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, kneeling in the sand beside a leatherback sea turtle. Like a giant mango with wings, the huge black ...