"The [...] (IUCN) no longer considers the marine creatures endangered, instead reclassifying them as a “species of least concern” in its influential conservation index. [..]
Conservationists celebrated the good news, but they also cautioned that, while green sea turtles are rebounding globally, several subpopulations are still threatened."
'“Sea turtles are iconic and charismatic species. … They inspire people,” Brendan Godley, a conservation scientist at the University of Exeter in England, tells the BBC’s Helen Briggs. “Hundreds of thousands of people have been working for decades to try and look after these creatures, and undoubtedly, it has had an impact.”'