Félix Guillermo Moncada Gavilán helped move Cuba from sea turtle fishing to protection

Mongabay
Jul 19, 2026, 11:35 pm184 ptsTrendingTop
For much of the 20th century, Cuba’s sea turtles were treated as a fishery. Green turtles were taken for meat, and hawksbills for the patterned shell used in jewelry and ornaments. In the 1980s, legal fisheries landed an average of 836 metric tons a year. Research focused in part on how the catch might be…

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