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

Jacques Fretey; Alexis Billes; Manjula Tiwari

doi:10.2744/1071-8443(2007)6[126:LDCNAT]2.0.CO;2

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Jacques Fretey,¹ Alexis Billes,² Manjula Tiwari³

¹IUCN-France, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – 75005 Paris, France [ ] jfretey@imatech.fr
²Cellule de Coordination ECOFAC, BP 15 115, Libreville, Gabon [ ] protomac_lbv@yahoo.ie
³NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Marine Turtle Research Program, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, California 92037 USA [ ] manjula.tiwari@noaa.gov

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.

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Jacques Fretey, Alexis Billes, and Manjula Tiwari "Leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea, Nesting Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa," Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6(1), 126-129, (1 May 2007). https://doi.org/10.2744/1071-8443(2007)6[126:LDCNAT]2.0.CO;2

Received: 21 September 2004; Accepted: 1 February 2007; Published: 1 May 2007

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