By Sheril Kirshenbaum As I’ve written in the past, species are constantly blinking in and out of existence. This may or may not be of concern depending on your scale of interest. After all, extinction is the only real certainty. Last month Andy Revkin asked, ‘Does the world need leatherback…
As I’ve written in the past, species are constantly blinking in and out of existence. This may or may not be of concern depending on your scale of interest. After all, extinction is the only real certainty. Last month Andy Revkin asked, ‘Does the world need leatherback turtles? ‘ Need,…
Greencastle, Ind. - "In a recent New York Times blog covering the race, journalist Andy Revkin dared pose the question, 'Do we need sea turtles?' The responses have been passionate and thought-provoking, but inconclusive," writes Wallace J. Nichols, senior research scientist at Ocean Conservancy and 1989 graduate of DePauw University.…
In 1996, I was on the first team to attach a satellite transmitter to the back of a sea turtle and track her migration across an entire ocean. Her name was Adelita, after the daughter of a local fisherman. Over the next 368 days, she swam some 7,000 miles from…
Sea turtle biologists in the Gulf of California in northwest Mexico are having continued success with efforts to monitor and restore sea turtle populations in the region, according to DSN’s field correspondent Wallace J Nichols. Three critically endangered hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata were tagged with satellite transmitters for the first…
