Susan C. Gardner and Wallace J. Nichols. 2001. Assessment of sea turtle mortality rates in the Bahía Magdalena region, Baja California Sur, México. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(1):197–199. In 1972 the Mexican government began to regulate the capture of sea turtles (Secretaria de Pesca, 1990). Although regulations now exist that…
July 23, 2001, Greencastle, Ind. - Blue, a dog frequently seen swimming in Bowman pond in the late 1980's and the “writer” of a column for The DePauw newspaper in that era, passed away last week. That word comes from his owner, W.J. Nichols, a 1989 graduate who also recalls…
PUERTO SAN CARLOS, MEXICO-- Here along the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, a celebration--Easter, a birthday, the arrival of important guests--calls for a meal of caguama, or turtle. Locals also covet the animal's medicinal properties. The best-tasting, according to most, is the East Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas).…
Wallace J. Nichols, Louise Brooks, Melania Lopez, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Record of pelagic east Pacific green turtles associated with macrocystis mats near Baja California Sur, Mexico, Marine Turtle Newsletter, 2001, Volume 93, Pages 10-11, http://www.seaturtle.org/mtn/archives/mtn93/mtn93p10.shtml?nocount Juvenile East Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas), also known commonly as black turtles, encountered 20…
Pacific Loggerhead TurtlesUntil five years ago, the Pacific loggerhead turtles of Baja California presented a herpeto-logical enigma: Not a single nest had ever been found on North American sand. But in 1996, after two fruitless years spent scouring beaches from Guatemala to California in search of nesting evidence, researcher Wallace…
