Entries for date "March 2002"
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wallacejnichols
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March 31, 2002
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Chris Pesenti (This article was originally published in the Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2002). How do you gauge the successfulness of an environmental conference? If it is based on numbers of attendees, it would be hard to dispute the success of the 4th Annual Meeting…
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wallacejnichols
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March 27, 2002
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Listen to Mandalit del Barco's report. Watch video: Wildcoast biologist Wallace J. Nichols and Baja fishermen tag and release turtles in the Pacific. March 27, 2002 -- During Lent, when observant Catholics eat fish instead of red meat, many Mexicans and Mexican Americans make a feast out of sea turtles.…
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March 15, 2002
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LOS ANGELES, California, March 15, 2002 (ENS) - A California based conservation group has written to the Vatican asking that turtle meat be declared red meat, and therefore off limits to practicing Catholics during Lent. The group says that consumption of illegally caught turtles is one of the major threats…
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March 14, 2002
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KENNETH R. WEISS | TIMES STAFF WRITER A group of conservationists from the United States and Mexico on Wednesday asked Pope John Paul II to declare sea turtles to be "meat," as opposed to "fish," in an effort to halt the Mexican tradition of eating endangered turtles during Lent. Wildcoast,…
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March 14, 2002
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Un grupo ecologista de California lanzó una campaña radiofónica en español para terminar con la tradición mexicana de comer tortugas marinas, una antigua práctica que acaba cada año con 5.000 ejemplares de esta especie en extinción. "La tradición debe terminar", dijo Serge Dedina, director de Wildcoast,…
