EVERYONE LOVED GATA THE SEA turtle: the tough, salty fishermen who caught her, the biologist who outfitted her with a transmitter and released her, and the thousands of school kids who followed her on the Internet as she swam up the coast of Mexico. She was a 50-year-old 310-pound beauty…
LISTEN to NPR's report on this story. Early morning: A light breeze barely ruffles the waters in Banderitas Estuary. Flashes of silver dart underneath the turquoise motorboat. Along the shore, bright green mangroves dip their gnarled, entwined limbs into and out of the water. Photograph by Jeffrey L. Brown. If…
Susan C. Gardner and Wallace J. Nichols. 2001. Assessment of sea turtle mortality rates in the Bahía Magdalena region, Baja California Sur, México. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(1):197–199. In 1972 the Mexican government began to regulate the capture of sea turtles (Secretaria de Pesca, 1990). Although regulations now exist that…
July 23, 2001, Greencastle, Ind. - Blue, a dog frequently seen swimming in Bowman pond in the late 1980's and the “writer” of a column for The DePauw newspaper in that era, passed away last week. That word comes from his owner, W.J. Nichols, a 1989 graduate who also recalls…
