LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Un grupo ecologista de California lanzó una campaña radiofónica en español para terminar con la tradición mexicana de comer tortugas marinas, una antigua práctica que acaba cada año con 5.000 ejemplares de esta especie en extinción. "La tradición debe terminar", dijo Serge Dedina, director de Wildcoast,…
KENNETH R. WEISS | TIMES STAFF WRITER A group of conservationists from the United States and Mexico on Wednesday asked Pope John Paul II to declare sea turtles to be "meat," as opposed to "fish," in an effort to halt the Mexican tradition of eating endangered turtles during Lent. Wildcoast,…
Chris Pesenti and Wallace J. Nichols. 2002. Signs of Success: Fourth Annual Meeting of the Sea Turtle Conservation Network of the Californias (Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias). Marine Turtle Newsletter 97:14-16. "A network is non-hierarchical. It is a web of connections among equals. What holds it together is not force,…
