Texas Fauna Project

Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle

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Thane Wibbels, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who has been involved in research and conservation of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle for many years. Like other scientists, he has been puzzled by the plateauing of the turtle's recovery around 2010, and now theorizes that the creature's numbers may be capped by the diminished carrying capacity of the Gulf of Mexico.