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Rethink needed on turtle conservation
The University of Queensland
09 January 2014
Green turtle populations have expanded so much in Indonesia’s east coast islands marine protected areas that they are adopting new feeding habits, degrading the ecosystem and threatening their own conservation.
Scientists and conservationists had believed thatmarine protected areas would be key to enhancing the recovery of protected species and ecosystems. Read more
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