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The 110-million-year-old sea turtle is a bellwether of marine ecosystem health. Where there are healthy wild populations of sea turtles, there are healthy oceans sustaining them. Unfortunately, sea turtles today are highly threatened and their numbers are rapidly diminishing.
Longline fishing, whichkills an estimated 40,000 sea turtles annually, along with shrimp trawling, coastal development, ocean pollution, global warming, and hunting, have caused an unprecedented decline in sea turtle populations.
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