Explanation:

The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has recently recommended the de-notification of Galathea Bay Sanctuary, after local authorities submitted a proposal for it to the Union environment ministry citing an international shipment project.

• It has suggested the implementation of a mitigation plan to facilitate nesting of turtles as well as connectivity between the Galathea river and the Bay of Bengal.
• Great Nicobar Island and Little Andaman Island host the largest nesting population of leatherback turtles in the central or northern Indian Ocean.

Leatherback Turtles

• They are named for their shell, which is leather-like rather than hard, like other turtles.
• They are extremely vulnerable to temperature extremes.
• It is the only species without scales and a hard shell.
• They are the largest sea turtle species and also one of the most migratory, crossing both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
• Some of the turtles can swim over 10,000 miles a year between nesting and foraging grounds.

Pacific leatherbacks migrate from nesting beaches in the Coral Triangle all the way to the California coast to feed on the abundant jellyfish every summer and fall.

• Although their distribution is wide, numbers of leatherback turtles have seriously declined during the last century as a result of intense egg collection and fisheries bycatch.
• Globally, leatherback status according to IUCN is listed as Vulnerable, but many subpopulations (such as in the Pacific and Southwest Atlantic) are Critically Endangered.

Hence both statements are correct.