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Loggerheads win new protection in Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico

July 14, 2014
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NOAA and USFWS established critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtles in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The federal government this week initiated protection of 685 miles of beaches from Mississippi to North Carolina and more than 300,000 square miles of ocean as “critical habitat” for loggerhead sea turtles along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. … Read more

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