Leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea, Nesting Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa

By J. Fretey, Alexis Billes, Manjula Tiwari. 2007

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ABSTRACT Leatherback nesting along the Atlantic coast of Africa extends from Mauritania in the north to Angola in the south, with a globally important nesting concentration located in Gabon in Central Africa. Provisional estimates of nesting numbers from Gabon indicate that this nesting population may be among the largest in the world.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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• Post-Nesting Migrations of Leatherback Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) from Jamursba-Medi, Bird's Head Peninsula, Indonesia (2007, background): “Leatherback turtles are susceptible to incidental take in pelagic long-line and gillnet fisheries that operate throughout much of the Pacific Ocean (Chan et al. 1988; Eckert and Sarti 1997; Lewison et al. 2004; Carretta et al. 2005; Alfaro-Shigueto et al. 2007).”