Entries for date "October 2008"
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Oct. 23, 2008
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October 23, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - Wallace J. Nichols, a research associate at California Academy of Sciences and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, "plans to petition the Mexican government to create an ocean preserve limiting fishing in the waters off Playa San Lazaro, similar to the reserves in place off…
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Oct. 22, 2008
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By Genevieve Bookwalter SANTA CRUZ -- Two Santa Cruz scientists have pinpointed a Baja California beach as the sandy graveyard of more dead sea turtles than anywhere else in the world, and they blame poor fishing practices for the deaths. Next week one of the researchers plans to visit Mexico…
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Oct. 6, 2008
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Wallace J. Nichols (right) and Jeffrey Seminoff release an adult female hawksbill sea turtle with a satellite transmitter in El Salvador While fact-checking an upcoming story on the pros and cons of development in Baja California, Senior Researcher Meg Weaver stumbled upon the story of Adelita, a loggerhead turtle who…
