Wild animals are captured or taken opportunistically, and the meat, body parts, and/or eggs
are consumed for local subsistence or used for traditional purposes to some extent across …

Human exploitation of wildlife for food, medicine, curios, aphrodisiacs, and spiritual artifacts
represents a mounting 21st‐century conservation challenge. Here, we provide the first …

Blood flukes of the family Spirorchiidae are important disease agents in marine turtles. The
family is near cosmopolitan in distribution. Twenty-nine marine species across 10 genera …

Sea turtles are an iconic group of marine megafauna that have been exposed to multiple
anthropogenic threats across their different life stages, especially in the past decades. This …

Industrial tuna and artisanal fisheries targeting multiple species in the eastern Pacific Ocean
(EPO) interact with the Critically Endangered East Pacific (EP) leatherback turtle …

The mitigation hierarchy has been proposed as an overarching framework for managing
fisheries and reducing marine megafauna bycatch, but requires empirical application to …

Feeding strategies in sea turtles are among the most important aspects of their life history,
influencing demographic parameters such as growth, age-at-maturity, and reproductive …

Fisheries, either directed or via bycatch, are a major cause of decline in global populations
of marine turtles. Although artisanal fisheries are often seen as lower-impact than industrial …

Worldwide, conservation initiatives have attempted to curb illegal harvest, use and trade of
marine turtles at least since the 1950s. Despite some declines in local trade and …

It is important to identify the location of illegal poaching and its effects on the conservation of
endangered species. This study applied molecular techniques to estimate the origin of sea …