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The Green Sea Turtles are known as commercial food (turtle soup) and are hunted for their shell, meat, oil, skin, and eggs.
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The population of the green sea turtle is decreasing at a slow rate because there is a rising concern for the future of the species. This also causes the demand for turtle products to decrease.
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Population began to decline again as demand for gourmet food (turtle soup) , the shell, leather, meat, oil, and skin are increasing.
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First citing of this disease in a decades since 1930. It's a disease, linked to human pollutants, that affects sea turtles. It is marked by the presence of large tumors all over the turtle's body and cause the turtle to have bad eye site.
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The population drops to an estimated 100,000 - 400,000 green sea turtles remaining.
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These regulations provide protection for the green turtle on paper but in reality was not followed
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Helps protect aquatic life especially green sea turtles.
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The Green Sea Turtle becomes endangered, and joins the list, earning them the protection of the Endangered Species Act of 1978.
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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species establishes that international trade of sea turtle parts is illegal.
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The population of Green Sea Turtles begins to rise immediately thanks to the ESA and because of increasing public awareness.
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Many sea turtles were affected by this epidemic which caused the turtle population to shift down a little, but then it continues to grow steadily again.
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The TIHPA protects areas where the green sea turtle nests are prevalent. So they can boost the population out of endangered.
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The green sea turtle becomes protected under Annex II of the Specially Protected Areas of Wildlife, a regulation that aims in conserving areas where green sea turtles nest.
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The Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles with developing laws to protect sea turtles legally in the U.S. and Caribbean.
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This mandate promotes the conservation, protection, replenishing, and recovery of the sea turtles and habitats.
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Denied a permit that would have allowed drift-gillnet vessels to operate in a protected area off the California and Oregon coasts.
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The closure of the bottom longline fishery in the Gulf; the closure would allow the agency to determine whether and how the fishery could continue to operate while ensuring the survival of sea turtles over the long term.
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The government also proposed listing loggerhead sea turtles around the globe as nine separate populations, each with its own threatened or endangered status.
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The Center and allies filed a notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service if it didn't protect all endangered turtles in the region, including loggerheads, from entanglement and drowning in shrimp trawls.
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When it failed to consider a reasonable range of options to protect loggerhead sea turtles in the Gulf and refused to take a fresh look at the Gulf bottom longline fishery's impact on sea turtles after the massive BP oil spill.
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To hold the National Marine Fisheries Service accountable for its role in the shrimp trawl-related deaths of endangered sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico.
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That would require escape hatches in shrimp nets used by boats that operate in the shallow, inshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico and southeast Atlantic Ocean.
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the National Marine Fisheries Service announced an area closure for the swordfish drift gill-net fishery in the Pacific Ocean off Southern California from July 25 through August 31 to prevent entanglements and drownings of endangered sea turtles.
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Rescued over 4,000 green sea turtles in Texas inchore waters during the winter
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because of nesting issues increase
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Ultimately with all these organizations and laws put in place scientist predict that the population will increase slightly in the coming years and speculate whether the species doesn’t become critically endangered later on in the future due to, the increasingly prevalent factors like overpopulation and global warming. Which may have a negative impact on the population in the forceable future.