By Michael Graham Richard, Source: Treehugger
Outrageous!
According to the IUCN Red List, all 7 species of marine turtles are endangered. They’re all covered by CITES regulations to prevent international trade in turtles and turtle products, but within national borders, it is the responsibility of individual countries to create and enforce laws to protect these threatened species.
Well, for sea turtles, that’s not happening in 42 countries. According to a study by Exeter University, these have no laws in place to prevent fishing of endangered marine turtles. Their ‘legal’ (in these countries) harvest is estimated at around 42,000 each year… This is in addition to all the illegal turtle fishing in international waters and all the deaths from bycatch.
Read more at: Treehugger
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