The road to the whales eats cars. When Wallace J. Nichols, an American turtle researcher, broke down he was stuck for two days until a mechanic happened by. The mechanic was a friend of the notorious Gordo Fischer, known throughout Baja California Sur for poaching sea turtles. While the mechanic…
Young mackerel escort a Pacific loggerhead turtle off Baja California. Many of these 300-pound sea turtles are born on Yaku Shima in southern Japan, says Wallace J. Nichols, a California Academy of Sciences biologist. Over the next two to six years the turtles cross the Pacific along a line, says…
Nichols, WJ, A Resendiz, JA Seminoff, B Resendiz 2000. Transpacific migration of a loggerhead turtle monitored by satellite telemetry. Bulletin of Marine Science 67(3): 937-947. Abstract The oceanic movements of a captive-raised adult loggerhead turtle ( Caretta caretta) were monitored with satellite telemetry for 368 d from 10 August 1996…
Wallace J. Nichols, Kristin E. Bird, Salvador Garcia, Community-based research and its application to sea turtle conservation in Bahía Magdalena, BCS, Mexico, Marine Turtle Newsletter, Volume 89, 2000, Pages 4-7. Five species of sea turtle are known to inhabit the coastal waters of Mexico. The two most common species to…
Through my work I hope to arouse a deeper connection with nature, help catalyze an Ocean Revolution and grow this generation of EcoDaredevils. Sometimes this occurs simply by walking and speaking. Other times using writing and images. Or through face to face encounters with wild animals.Science and knowledge can also…
