Entries for tag "sea turtles"
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wallacejnichols
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June 15, 2010
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Gulf turtle evacuees could get lost at sea by Sujata Gupta Turtles are being relocated from the US Gulf coast to save them from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill – but this may scramble their navigating skills, marine biologists warn. As a result, the animals could lose their way to…
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May 7, 2010
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Image courtesy of Wallace J. Nichols. This is the sixth in a series of posts about the Ocean Heroes finalists. We’re wrapping up our week of Adult Ocean Hero finalists with Dr. Wallace “J.” Nichols. J.’s love of sea turtles started when he was a kid, growing out of a…
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wallacejnichols
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May 7, 2010
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USAID Press Office 202-712-4320 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) hosted a diverse group of private sector representatives in San Salvador today, encouraging them to join the sea turtle conservation effort. Sea turtles, which are an endangered species, nest along the Salvadoran coastline. U.S.…
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Oct. 6, 2008
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Wallace J. Nichols (right) and Jeffrey Seminoff release an adult female hawksbill sea turtle with a satellite transmitter in El Salvador While fact-checking an upcoming story on the pros and cons of development in Baja California, Senior Researcher Meg Weaver stumbled upon the story of Adelita, a loggerhead turtle who…
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wallacejnichols
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March 6, 2008
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Kama S. Dean, Wallace J. Nichols, Jesús Lucero, Johath Laudino-Santillán, Melania C. López-Castro and S. Hoyt Peckham. 2008. Strengthening sea turtle conservation on the Baja California Peninsula: Building a conservation network. In: Rees, A.F., M. Frick, A. Panagopoulou and K. Williams., compilers. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium on Sea…
