Tag: sea turtles

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 07:56 UTC

  Sea turtles spotted next to Rio's coastal airport as flights drops dramatically

  

  Sea turtles have been spotted swimming amid garbage next to an airport in Brazil’s tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro, as the scream of jet engines that would normally keep them away has been largely silenced due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2015 - 09:07 UTC

  NOAA Fisheries names three Latam countries in illegal fishing activities

  

  United States NOAA Fisheries (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has released its 2015 Biennial Report to Congress highlighting U.S. findings and analyses of foreign illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities and of by-catch of protected species and shark catch on the high seas for foreign fleets.