Entries for tag "sea turtles"
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wallacejnichols
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Jan. 9, 2003
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Bird, K, WJ Nichols and CR Tambiah. 2003. The value of local knowledge in sea turtle conservation: A case from Baja Califorania, Mexico. In: Putting Fishers’ Knowledge to Work: Conference Proceedings, August 27-30, 2001. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 2003 Volume 11 Number 1. Pages 178-183. ABSTRACT The use of sea…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 3, 2002
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By Deborah Knight To be an endangered sea turtle near Punta Abreojos on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula is to be a lucky animal. In this remote fishing village, the local fishing cooperative cracks down on any member caught with a turtle. For the first offense, you lose fishing privileges for three…
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wallacejnichols
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March 31, 2002
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Chris Pesenti (This article was originally published in the Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2002). How do you gauge the successfulness of an environmental conference? If it is based on numbers of attendees, it would be hard to dispute the success of the 4th Annual Meeting…
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wallacejnichols
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March 14, 2002
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KENNETH R. WEISS | TIMES STAFF WRITER A group of conservationists from the United States and Mexico on Wednesday asked Pope John Paul II to declare sea turtles to be "meat," as opposed to "fish," in an effort to halt the Mexican tradition of eating endangered turtles during Lent. Wildcoast,…
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wallacejnichols
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Jan. 30, 2002
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Academy herpetologist Wallace J. Nichols is working with fisherman and using the latest technologies to help save threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerhead turtles have swum our oceans for 100 million years, inspiring folklore, songs, and art from Japan to California. Yet, not much is known about them. Nichols knows why.…
