{"id":7387,"date":"2013-01-10T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=7387"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:06","slug":"conservation-groups-file-lawsuit-to-protect-loggerhead-sea-turtle-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2013\/01\/10\/conservation-groups-file-lawsuit-to-protect-loggerhead-sea-turtle-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtle Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Conservation groups filed a lawsuit this week to protect loggerhead sea turtle habitat. The suit against the National Marine Fisheries Service<\/a> and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service maintains that the agencies have not protected critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtles.<\/p>\n Loggerhead sea turtles are endangered. They live in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and they spend time in both open ocean and shallow coastal areas. Even with such a broad range of habitat, the loggerhead sea turtle is at risk from human activities. Most pressing is the destruction of nesting sites.<\/p>\n In the U.S., the largest nesting populations are found in Florida. Coastal development and beach armoring can make it difficult for loggerheads to nest successfully.<\/p>\n The southern California nesting populations have declined by 80 percent of the last decade. Coastal development as well as gillnet and longline fishing are significant factors in the decline.<\/p>\n