Graceful and deliberate, the sea turtle's seven species can travel great distances over water to land during their long lives. Like gentle garden tenders, they play an important role, maintaining each habitat they occupy. My last two columns looked at local efforts to protect sea turtles at both ends of…
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release 17 March 2010 To eat or not to eat…an endangered species? New study connects eating endangered sea turtles with human health risks Hunting of protected species such as whales, turtles and primates for human consumption remains one of the leading threats to their survival and…
Drawing heavily on sea turtle ecology, migration and conservation themes our contribution to OUP's new Handbook of Marine Fisheries seeks to summarize the exciting times we live in for both the scientific breakthroughs and new technologies at our disposal and the urgent need to realign society with the natural limits…
The survival of sea turtles is threatened, but fortunately they have a champion. Academy Research Fellow, Wallace J Nichols is pursuing his lifelong passion to help save them for future generations. This is the fascinating story of how he turned one of their hunters, into a valuable ally.
Melania C. López-Castro, Volker Koch, Antonio Mariscal-Loza, Wallace J. Nichols, Long-term monitoring of black turtles, Chelonia mydas, at coastal areas off the Baja California Peninsula, Endangered Species Research, 2010, Volumber 11, Pages 35-35, http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v11/n1/p35-45/ Abstract Monthly in-water monitoring was conducted at 5 foraging areas off the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico,…
