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The loggerhead sea turtle is one of Europe’s most endangered marine species, but Greek beaches registered a record number of births this summer, experts said Friday.Greece hosts the loggerhead turtle’s (species: careta careta) main nesting grounds, making the highest number of births registered in 10 years a welcome sight for environmentalists.“We have already detected 1,100 nests in the Zakynthos National Marine Park and another 2,200 in the Gulf of Kyparissia, both located in the Ionian Sea,” said Panayiota Theodoru, an environmental and conservation projects spokesperson at ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece.Although still awaiting data to ascertain the factors that caused this increase in Loggerhead turtle births, Theodoru considered that a mild and short winter and scarce rainfall may have been decisive in the outcome.Every year around 600 sea turtles are found dead –six times the death rate during the 1990s – and scores are seriously wounded.Many are found with intentional head wounds, while others die caught in fishing nets or after eating floating plastic bags, which they confuse with jellyfish.
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