AR-News: (US FL) Bill protects world's marine turtles

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(SHNS photo by Patrice R. Holderbach / Scripps Howard News Service)

A loggerhead turtle crawls on the beach in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico, as 
she searches for a place on the beach to nest her eggs. 


Bill protects world's marine turtles 
By Patrice R. Holderbach Scripps Howard News Service
March 29, 2004 
WASHINGTON — They are ancient ambassadors of the sea. Weighing up to 200 
pounds, their green-brown-and-black-shelled bodies swim and crawl onto shores from 
Mexico to Malaysia. 
But now, endangered by illegal poaching and trading, sea turtles need help. A 
bill before Congress aims to preserve the creatures that have called Earth's 
waters home for millions of years. 







Members of the House Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and 
Oceans last week heard from researchers, conservation activists and government 
officials who mostly supported the bill. It is based on the Multinational 
Species Conservation Funds, a program that has helped African elephants, Asian 
elephants, rhinoceroses, tigers, apes and migratory birds. 
The bill "will not by itself stop the slaughter of sea turtles or their eggs, 
but it sends a powerful message to the world community that the United States 
will not idly sit by and allow these species to disappear forever," said Rep. 
Wayne Gilchrest, R-Md., subcommittee chairman and sponsor of the bill. 


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