(Reuters) Amir Cohen - Green turtles are endangered worldwide, the World Wildlife Fund says. According to the Israeli Sea Turtle Rescue Center, about 20 female green turtles nest along the Israeli Mediterranean coast during the breeding season. To help the turtle population, Israeli nature authorities have declared some beaches nature reserves and with the rescue center have been relocating threatened turtle nests to safe hatcheries since the 1980s. In 2002, the rescue center began recruiting turtles for a special breeding stock that would help populate the sea with their offspring, in one of the world's only such conservation programs. "We expect that in the coming years we will be able to spawn 1,000 hatchlings a year," said Yaniv Levi, the center's manager.
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