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Sea turtles and their eggs were considered such a delicacy in the 1700s that traders would travel to a remote atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean to gather great numbers of the reptiles and ship them to far-flung soup bowls in Paris and England.
Green sea turtles on the atoll were eventually protected in 1968, and now new research by Pritchard and others shows that decades of conservation in the half-century since has resulted in a boom in sea turtle numbers — especially in the past decade. The researchers found some differences between beaches on the atoll. The longest beach on Aldabra, which was the most heavily exploited, took a while longer to see a recovery in sea turtle numbers. They began to turn around in the 1990s, and the 2011 study predicted a surge in numbers there.
“Unfortunately, every trend suggests that more and more [pieces of garbage] are going to wash up,” Pritchard says.
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