Crowdsourcing conservation: unveiling Taiwan’s sea turtle foraging grounds, emerging threats, and residency with broad societal engagement
Taiwan supports healthy foraging grounds for green turtles, where adults often stay for more than one year and with dynamic populations of younger individuals. However, despite a certain number of foraging green turtles observed in Liuqiu Island, many of these turtles displayed injuries. This high population density combined with increased injury frequency suggests that a comprehensive management plan for turtle foraging grounds is urgently needed, including measures to reduce boat speeds in hotspot areas and strict regulations on coastal human activity.
Authors
- Huai Su (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3752-6773)
- Benny K. K. Chan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9479-024X)
- Yoko Nozawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6124-6045)
- Her-Yueh Huang
- Daphne Z. Hoh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-1034)
- Chia‐Chen Tsai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6907-1104)
- Chia‐Ling Fong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1862-9993)
- Pengyu Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4545-309X)
- Junyi Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3338-7884)
- Kelly W. H. Tseng
Institutions
- Diponegoro University (ID)
- National Taiwan Normal University (TW)
- National Taiwan University (TW)
- University of the Ryukyus (JP)
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica (TW)
- Academia Sinica (TW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Ecology and Evolution
- Published
- 2025-03-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02354-2
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.31