Losing the leatherback: the world's largest living reptile may go extinct so that we can eat swordfish.

Earth Island Journal | December 22, 2002| | Copyright

More than 35 government officials, fishers, scientists and environmental group leaders convened in late April at the International Leatherback Survival Conference to address the emergency of the Pacific leatherback turtle, a species teetering on the edge of extinction and incapable of recovering without our help. The conference, initiated by the Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP) of Marin County, was held at Asilomar in Monterey, California.

The leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, is the world's largest living reptile, reaching up to nine feet and 2,000 ...

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