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court decision
A court decision shut down the Hawaii-based longline fishery for swordfish. This decision to close millions of miles of Pacific Ocean to longline fishing prompted the fishery's fleet of three dozen vessels to relocate to Southern California. -
lawsuit
The Center and the Turtle Island Restoration Network filed a lawsuit to keep the National Marine Fisheries Service from authorizing a California drift-gillnet fishery until it met requirements to reduce the number of leatherbacks drowning in gillnets. Following this lawsuit, the agency agreed to prohibit drift-gillnets in central and Northern California in El Niño years when leatherbacks are present. -
laws successful
The Center filed a successful lawsuit to stop an experimental longline swordfish fishery that would have killed 87 loggerhead sea turtles in the same area where the fishing practice was previously banned in Hawaii. -
new lawsuit
The Center filed a lawsuit against the Fisheries Service for its failure to close portions of the California drift-gillnet fishery during an El Niño year when warmer water temperatures brought loggerheads into contact with the fishery. -
petition
The Center and Turtle Island Restoration Network filed a petition for an emergency rule to list the northern and Florida Panhandle subpopulations of the loggerhead sea turtle as endangered species throughout their range. -
prohibition
Following a successful lawsuit by the Center and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, longline fishing for swordfish was prohibited along the West Coast. -
proposal
The National Marine Fisheries Service made a proposal that would allow Hawaii's bottom longline swordfish fishery to injure and kill nearly three times as many imperiled sea turtles as had previously been permitted. -
new petition
The Center, Turtle Island Restoration Network and Oceana filed a citizen petition seeking to have critical habitat designated for the leatherback along the coasts of California and Oregon. -
forced response
The Center, Turtle Island Restoration Network and Oceana filed a notice of intent to sue to force a response to our 2007 petition. -
agreement
The Center, Oceana and the Turtle Island Restoration Network reached an agreement with the Fisheries Service establishing a deadline for the agency to respond to our 2007 petition in December. -
lawsuit
The Center, Turtle Island Restoration Network and KAHEA, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit challenging a Fisheries Service rule that allows Hawaii's longline fishery to catch nearly three times as many loggerheads as was previously permitted — and continues to result in the likely capture of 16 leatherbacks each year. -
petition
The Center and Turtle Island Restoration Network, represented by Stanford Law Clinic, petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to extend the seasonal closure of the gulf shrimp fishery for the sake of imperiled sea turtles, including the leatherback, pending an analysis of the fishery's environmental impact -
announcement
The Fisheries Service announced it would examine whether shrimp trawling in the southeast United States, including the Gulf of Mexico, was jeopardizing threatened and endangered sea turtle populations. -
notice of intent to sue
The Center, Oceana and the Turtle Island Restoration Network filed a notice of intent to sue the federal government for failing to meet the Endangered Species Act deadline for finalizing the leatherback's critical habitat. -
lawsuit
Conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the federal government for missing its deadline to protect critical habitat in ocean waters where critically endangered leatherback sea turtles feed on jellyfish along the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington. -
settlement
A settlement filed in federal court between the Center and allies and the National Marine Fisheries Service required the government to make a final rule protecting critical habitat for the endangered leatherback sea turtle by Nov. 15, 2011. As proposed, the rule would protect sea turtles in part of the area off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington. -
account of responsibility
Conservation groups asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to hold the National Marine Fisheries Service accountable for its role in the shrimp trawl-related deaths of endangered sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. -
finalization of protection
The Fisheries Service finalized protection of 40,000 square miles of protected critical ocean habitat off the shores of Washington, Oregon and California today for the endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle. -
vote
The federal Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to pursue the expansion of California's devastating drift gillnet fishery for swordfish and sharks into an area currently off-limits to that fishing to protect critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles. -
new protection
The National Marine Fisheries Service proposed new protections for sea turtles that would require escape hatches in shrimp nets used by boats that operate in the shallow, inshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico and southeast Atlantic Ocean. -
filed suit
The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network, represented by Earthjustice, filed suit challenging a new rule by the National Marine Fisheries Service that doubled the number of endangered loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles allowed to be entangled and killed by Hawaii's longline swordfish fishery. -
new study
A new study was released finding that the Western Pacific population of leatherback sea turtles, which includes the leatherbacks that feed in West Coast waters, has continued to decline since the 1980s. According to the report, if these trends continue extinction may be inevitable in 20 years. -
you have been served
The Center sued the California Department of Fish and Wildlife over the commercial Dungeness crab fishery’s skyrocketing entanglements of imperiled whales and sea turtles. At least 19 humpback whales, two blue whales and one leatherback sea turtle — all protected by the Endangered Species Act — were found tangled up in crab gear off the West Coast in 2016. -
call for action
The Center released a report highlighting the 10 most iconic endangered species in Mexico, including leatherback sea turtle, calling for better protection for these species and urging the Mexican government to launch a new push to better understand the status of more than 2,600 other endangered animals and plants around the country. -
extinction
by 2033 it seems that the leatherbacks turtle can be extinct
