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Topic: Freshwater Species

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2015 image made from video, an endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle swims as it is released into the Gulf of Mexico, 24 miles off the coast of Louisiana, after being rehabilitated by the Audubon Institute. After the spill, the number of the turtles' nests dropped 40 percent in one year in 2010. "We had never seen a drop that dramatic in one year before," according to Selina Saville Heppell, a professor at Oregon State University. The population climbed in 2011 and 2012 but then fell again in 2013 and 2014, down to levels that haven't been that low in nearly a decade, she said. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (AP)

Freshwater species are disappearing fast

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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