Female leatherback turtles are among the world's most intrepid creatures, making journeys as far as 10,000 miles after nesting to find food in far-away seas. They've been known to set off from tropical Southeast Asia up to the cold waters of Alaska, where jellyfish are abundant.
But travelling such a long way means encountering threats that can be fatal: fishing nets intended for other species, poachers, pollution and waters warmed by the climate crisis, which force the turtles to travel even further to find their prey.
These turtles are just one of hundreds of migratory species — those that make remarkable journeys each year across land, rivers and oceans — that are facing extinction because of human interference, according to a landmark UN agency report.
Of the 1,189 creatures listed by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, or CMS, more than one in five are threatened.
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