The beaches of Puerto Rico in 2013 had an all-time record number of 1,390 nests and 68,000 hatchlings of the leatherback turtle, the largest sea turtle in the world and one that is in danger of extinction in the Caribbean, Hispanically Speaking News reports. A spokeswoman of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of […]

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