Growing numbers of loggerhead sea turtles are nesting and laying eggs on western Mediterranean beaches in what some scientists suggest could be a case of climate change causing habitat expansion of a threatened species.
Along with the warming sea water, another factor probably benefiting the world's largest hard-shelled turtle, which is considered a vulnerable species, are protection programmes in countries like Spain and Cape Verde.
Since 2012, nest numbers have increased dramatically, reaching 84 in 2020, the most recent data available, according to a paper released by ecology scientific journal Global Ecology and Conservation last summer. Loggerhead turtles inhabit the warmer parts of world oceans and are present in the Mediterranean Sea, but they have mainly nested in a handful of places such as Florida, Cape Verde, Oman, Mozambique and Western Australia. They tend to return to their birthplace to lay eggs every few years.
Climate change is usually detrimental to wildlife, but the warming waters have apparently become more suitable for the turtles, Liria said, cautioning however that their lifespan of up to 100 years means any behavioural change must be observed over much longer periods.
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