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Baja Life Magazine: Grupo Tortuguero's 8th Annual Meeting Builds Hope for Endangered Sea Turtles

In late January 2006, hundreds of sea turtle protectors gathered in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, to celebrate the 8th Annual Meeting of the Grupo Tortuguero. The yearly gathering has grown from its founding group of 45 fishers, coastal residents, scientists, educators and conservationists to the current international network linking…

State of the Wild: Twine and the Ancient Mariners

Safina, C., E. Gilman, and W. J. Nichols. 2005. Twine and the Ancient Mariners; Seabirds, Turtles, and Interactions with Fishing Gear in the North Pacific. pp 122-130 in: S. Gunyup, ed., The State of the Wild. Island Press. Washington, DC. Chapter in The Wildlife Conservation Society's book, State of the…

Earth Island Journal: A revolution for the ocean

By Dr. Wallace J. Nichols and Drew Weiner Canned tuna now contains enough mercury to poison unborn children, damaging their nervous systems. At sea, oceanographers find six times as much plastic as plankton. During this century, oceans will warm a degree and the sea level will rise another foot, enough…

Ocean Magazine: She Was the Sea

Joshua Slocum may we one day speak of the seas that you once sailed and of the way they seemed in those days of yours. Days that surrounded the earth. Did you feel yourself a conqueror or a passenger? Would you shout to the lonely depths of the sea and…