Foraging areas for leatherback sea turtles in the South Pacific Gyre
Candidate EBSAs
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- Foraging areas for leatherback sea turtles in the South Pacific Gyre — Contact person: Andre Boustany, Duke University & TOPP — last modified Oct 17, 2010 11:41 PM
- New tracking technologies have allowed researchers to examine the movements of the critically endangered Pacific Leatherback turtle. Several years of tracking have revealed a consistent foraging area for leatherback turtles in the South Pacific Gyre.
- Areas of importance to the Antipodean Albatross in The Tasman Sea — Contact person: Ben Lascelles, BirdLife International — last modified Oct 17, 2010 11:38 PM
- Satellite tracking data have been used to identify sites of special importance for the Antipodean Albatross in the Tasman Sea during different life-history stages.
- North Pacific Elephant Seal Foraging Area — Contact person: Autumn-Lynn Harrison, Tagging of Pacific Pelagics (TOPP) — last modified Oct 17, 2010 11:17 PM
- Female northern elephant seals undertake a long foraging migration in the North Pacific each year, building a reserve for subsequent months spent fasting on land while giving birth, nourishing a pup, and breeding. Using data from the Tagging of Pacific Predators project (www.topp.org), we identify an area of high female northern elephant seal density during their annual 6-8 month foraging migration, indicating it is an area of special importance for life history stages of this species.
- The Sargasso Sea — Contact person: S.A. McKenna, Independent Consultant — last modified Oct 17, 2010 11:25 PM
- The Sargasso Sea is unique in being the only area in the world to function as a center of distribution for a self-sustaining community of holopelagic drift algae.
- The Saya de Malha Banks — Contact person: M. Vierros, United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies — last modified Oct 17, 2010 11:28 PM
- The Saya de Malha Banks are the largest submerged banks in the world containing a unique seagrass biotope in the open ocean.
- Offshore Osa and Cano Island — Contact person: Shawn Larkin, Costa Cetacea — last modified Oct 23, 2011 06:29 PM
- Unique area for two hemispheres of humpbacks, mega aggregations of multiple dolphin species, billfish, turtles, rays, birds, tuna, baitballs.
- Costa Rica Dome — Contact person: Erich Hoyt, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) — last modified Nov 23, 2010 05:38 PM
- The Costa Rica Dome is a high productivity area which uniquely supports year-round endangered blue whales.
- Southeast Shoal of the Grand Bank — Contact person: erichhoyt — last modified Feb 21, 2011 03:13 PM
- The Southeast Shoal of the Grand Bank is an area of high primary productivity, an offshore spawning site for capelin and a cetacean foraging area.
- Alborán Sea — Contact person: erichhoyt — last modified Nov 23, 2010 05:47 PM
- The Alborán Sea has the highest cetacean diversity in the Mediterranean basin.
