Entries for date "December 2009"

Sea Turtle Soup? No Thanks!

Catherine Clarke Fox Sea turtles have been on Earth for millions of years, but they are in danger of going extinct. The main threat to them is people who kill them for food, according to Dr. Wallace J. Nichols of the California Academy of Sciences and The Ocean Conservancy.But the…

EcoHealth: consumption of sea turtles and health

Jesse Senko, Wallace J. Nichols, James Perran Ross, and Adam S. Willcox. 2009. To Eat or not to Eat an Endangered Species: Views of Local Residents and Physicians on the Safety of Sea Turtle Consumption in Northwestern Mexico. EcoHealth 6(4): 584-595. Abstract Sea turtles have historically been an important food…