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Conservation success: Buoyed hopes for sea turtles

A hawksbill sea turtle swims over a coral reef near Turneffe Flats, off the coast of Belize.

Sea turtles are on the path to recovery, say scientists. But this is not a turtle story, this is a human story.

After half a century of conservation efforts, scientists are seeing long-term growth in some populations of the globe’s seven species of sea turtles, according to a paper published last month in the journal Science Advances.

“It's a success story,” says Gail Schofield, a postdoctoral researcher at Deakin University in Australia and coauthor on the study. Although not all

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