Academy herpetologist Wallace J. Nichols is working with fisherman and using the latest technologies to help save threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerhead turtles have swum our oceans for 100 million years, inspiring folklore, songs, and art from Japan to California. Yet, not much is known about them. Nichols knows why.…
In late September I was back on the Sea of Cortés with my sister Alice. Six hours down from the border, in the thick of the boojum forest, we'd cut east towards the Bahía de los Angeles, the Bay of Angels. More boojums, sandy flats, bald sun-sizzled sierra. At kilometer…
EVERYONE LOVED GATA THE SEA turtle: the tough, salty fishermen who caught her, the biologist who outfitted her with a transmitter and released her, and the thousands of school kids who followed her on the Internet as she swam up the coast of Mexico. She was a 50-year-old 310-pound beauty…
LISTEN to NPR's report on this story. Early morning: A light breeze barely ruffles the waters in Banderitas Estuary. Flashes of silver dart underneath the turquoise motorboat. Along the shore, bright green mangroves dip their gnarled, entwined limbs into and out of the water. Photograph by Jeffrey L. Brown. If…
