California agreed in 2019 to evaluate the risk of leatherback entanglement when deciding whether to open and close its Dungeness crab fishery. That same year we also won a suit challenging federal ...

WWF is working with a local community in Costa Rica to stop egg poaching of leatherback turtle nests ... and the construction and operation of a sea turtle hatchery, where eggs are brought in to be ...

The turtle's body has been taken to the Natural History Museum for further investigation A leatherback turtle weighing about a quarter of a tonne (250kg) has been found washed up near an Essex river.

Despite the lack of regular monitoring of state fisheries, leatherback sea turtles have been found tangled in commercial rock crab gear (in 2019) and Dungeness crab gear (in 2015 and 2016). In June ...