An International Call by Leading Scientists to Reverse the Pacific Leatherback's Extinction Trajectory (Originally issued July 2002, published and submitted to the United Nations February 2003; updated May 2005) As scientists concerned about the health of our oceans, we have joined together in support of fishing policies that ensure the…
By Diane Curtis The expedition team heads down a river in the Amazon basin. Credit: Classroom Connect (2001) Some days, the daily journals from Classroom Connect's AmazonQuest Web site read like a cross between Blue Lagoon and Indiana Jones: "Today I boarded perhaps the only flight on the planet that…
Chris Pesenti (This article was originally published in the Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2002). How do you gauge the successfulness of an environmental conference? If it is based on numbers of attendees, it would be hard to dispute the success of the 4th Annual Meeting…
Listen to Mandalit del Barco's report. Watch video: Wildcoast biologist Wallace J. Nichols and Baja fishermen tag and release turtles in the Pacific. March 27, 2002 -- During Lent, when observant Catholics eat fish instead of red meat, many Mexicans and Mexican Americans make a feast out of sea turtles.…
LOS ANGELES, California, March 15, 2002 (ENS) - A California based conservation group has written to the Vatican asking that turtle meat be declared red meat, and therefore off limits to practicing Catholics during Lent. The group says that consumption of illegally caught turtles is one of the major threats…
