Entries for category "Print | Web"
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wallacejnichols
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Nov. 12, 2007
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I recently attended the eighteenth annual Bioneers conference, which is hosted in San Rafael, California and broadcast live via satellite to nearly twenty cities in the U.S. The event's purpose is to discuss and elaborate ideas for creating an ecologically sustainable society. Presenters focus on practical strategies that environmentalists, social…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 20, 2007
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When I was writing my book “Voyage of the Turtle,” my focus was on the sumo wrestler among sea turtles, the gigantic Leatherback that can weigh a ton. But through my travels, concern about another species, the Loggerhead Turtle, also kept recurring. Two recent publications merit attention: 1) a new…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 19, 2007
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By Peter Etnoyer Industrial fishing operations take most of the blame for collateral impacts to sea-turtle populations, but new research shows that small-scale fisheries–operated by hand from little open boats –can kill as many critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles as industrial scale fisheries. A pioneering case study conducted on small-scale…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 17, 2007
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by Sheril Kirshenbaum Never underestimate the impact of the little guys… at least when it comes to fishing practices and North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles. Today in PLoS one, Ocean Conservancy Scientist Wallace J. Nichols and University of California (UC)-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham report that small-scale operations are a…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 17, 2007
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By Traci Hukill The picture is hideous and unspeakably sad: a half-dozen desiccated loggerhead turtle carcasses on the Baja beach in various agonized postures. The cause of death is drowning; these turtles were by-catch, unintentionally snared by nets or fishing lines set along the sea floor and tossed ashore after…
