Entries for tag "Baja California"
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 17, 2007
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Washington, DC. Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols and University of California-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham found surprising results in a recent peer-reviewed loggerhead sea turtle study that Nichols and Peckham conducted over the course of 10 years. The full study will be published on October 17 in the online,…
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wallacejnichols
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April 15, 2007
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Introduction A solitary loggerhead turtle in the middle of a vast ocean may not sound like an adventure film, but stick with her. Along her 9,000-mile voyage to nest, our loggerhead tour guide in Voyage of the Lonely Turtle encounters hammerhead sharks, deep ocean tempests, and man-made death traps in…
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wallacejnichols
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Feb. 1, 2007
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Ten years ago today, Adelita, a female loggerhead sea turtle, was about halfway across the Pacific Ocean, a few hundred miles northwest of Hawaii. Adelita was the first sea turtle to wear a radio transmitter bonded to her shell, and head out across the Pacific Ocean. She was originally captured…
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Sept. 24, 2006
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by Peter Aldhous, SF ChronicleIn the southern reaches of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, majestic cardon cacti stand sentry over the dusty red desert, which crumbles into the turquoise waters of the Gulf of California. But in this striking landscape, dark forces are at work.Within an hour of leaving the airport…
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March 1, 2004
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Raquel Briseño and Wallace J. Nichols. 2005. Summary of the Sixth and Announcement for the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Grupo Tortuguero / Sea Turtle Conservation Network “A Sea Turtle Revolution” (Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 28-30 January, 2004). Marine Turtle Newsletter 106:15. “Revolutions are not made, they come.”- Jose…
