Sentence examples for leatherbacks from inspiring English sources

Many experts consider Malaysia's leatherbacks as good as gone.

News of the leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) was not so good; numbers crashed in Mexico, where half the world's leatherbacks nest.

In Gabon, Central Africa, the Sea Turtle Trust (028 44 830537; seaturtletrust.org) works with Aventures Sans Frontières to protect leatherbacks at Pongara beach.

Leatherbacks and other sea turtles are migratory in that they traverse hundreds of kilometres from their main feeding areas to nest on the beaches where they hatched.

To create the next generation, female leatherbacks dig holes on beaches and deposit their eggs in about two and a half feet of sand.

The country's beaches annually cradle about 40 percent of all Pacific leatherbacks' eggs.

FIFTY years ago Malaysia's northern state of Terengganu played host to 6,000 to 10,000 leatherback turtle nests every summer.

It was closely followed by the leatherback turtle, at 15Hz.

The population has plummeted because local people adore eating leatherback eggs and because fishermen are estimated to pull nearly a quarter of the species' Pacific population from the ocean each year.Which is why scientists, greens and officials gathered in Kijal, in southern Terengganu, this week to discuss what to do and how to pay for it.

Elephants and buffalo stroll down to the water, and leatherback turtles make their nests: his elephants, his buffalo, his turtles.

In the past 20 years, for example, 90% of leatherback turtles and large predatory fish, such as sharks, have disappeared.Where and how this is happening has been difficult to say, since the ocean is something of a black box.