Finally, some good news: endangered sea turtles are recovering because ome conservation efforts seem to be working.
While some individual species are still at risk of extinction, the global trends highlight a heartening improvement.
There are only seven species of sea turtles, also known as marine turtles, in the world.
A recent survey shows that endangered sea turtles are recovering.© Simonverhamme, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Six of them areclassified as threatened or endangered, with the seventhflatback turtlesnot includedbecause of insufficient data.
There are also nuances to this promising new data.
Overall, the sea turtle story is one of the real conservation success stories.
We cant fix everything we destroy, but when we have a go at we get real positive results.
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