Olema, CA. Turtle Island Restoration Network announced this week that Randall Arauz, director of the Costa Rican environmental organization PRETOMA, and Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, of Davenport, CA, have joined the organization’s board of directors. Turtle Island Restoration Network is a nonprofit environmental organization that sponsors initiatives including the Sea…
In this article, the husband-and-wife authors describe how their family tried an experiment in living with zero waste as part of a working vacation studying the endangered hawkbill sea turtles in El Salvador. During the experiment, each family member consumed three coconuts a day for three weeks. Aside from enjoying…
By. GENEVIEVE BOOKWALTER SANTA CRUZ -- New rules proposed to protect endangered leatherback turtles off the West Coast could have far-reaching effects on Monterey Bay clean energy, desalination and other projects as federal officials seek a balance between increased human demands on the sea and resources that the rare creatures…
Jesse Senko, Melania C. López-Castro, Volker Koch, Wallace J. Nichols. 2010. Immature east Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas) use multiple foraging areas off the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, Pacific Science 64(1): 125-130. Abstract Since 2001, Grupo Tortuguero has been conducting monthly inwater monitoring of East Pacific green…
