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A Kemp's ridley hatchling, an endangered species of sea turtle, reaches the surf at Padre Island National Seashore during a public release on June 28, 2024, in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Kemp's ridley sea turtle is currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). [7] Egg harvesting and poaching first depleted the numbers of Kemp's ridley sea turtles, [21] but today, major threats include habitat loss, pollution, and entanglement in shrimping nets. Some major current conservation efforts are aimed towards ...
English: Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys kempii), 2 km south of Barra del Tordo, Municipality of Aldama, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Photographed on 19 April 2001 by William L. Farr. This image was originally photographed with film and later scanned from a print.
In 2011, the Kemp's ridley sea turtle was on track to lose the "endangered" label by 2024. But population growth has stalled.
Kemp’s ridley turtles, first discovered in the 1880s, are the smallest sea turtles, the DNR says. They typically weigh about 100 pounds. They typically weigh about 100 pounds.
The origin of "ridley" is a subject of speculation. Prior to being known as ridleys, French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède referred to the Lepidochelys species as "bastard turtles." Renowned sea turtle conservationist Archie Carr claimed that "ridley" was a common Floridan term, quite possibly, a dialectal corruption of "riddle." [1]
Rehabilitating the Kemp’s ridley sea turtles is particularly important due to their critically endangered status. The species used to be abundant throughout the Gulf of Mexico and nested in ...
The focus of this program is protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle through the enforcement of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) in shrimp nets and the development of a Kemp's ridley marine reserve that is off limits to commercial fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2008 a record-breaking season occurred with ...