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Research Shows Loggerhead Sea Turtles Threatened by Small-Scale Fishing Operations: Study Tracked Loggerheads During Migration from Baja California to Japan

October 20, 2007 – 4:38 am

Ocean Conservancy
Research Shows Loggerhead Sea Turtles Threatened by Small-Scale Fishing Operations: Study Tracked Loggerheads During Migration from Baja California to Japan
Conservation efforts reduce loggerhead mortalities by working with fisherman in vital turtle habitat
October 17, 2007
Media Contact: Kelly Ricaurte
Washington, DC — Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols and University of California (UC)-Santa Cruz researcher [...]

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Promises to Keep

October 16, 2007 – 4:56 am

One sea turtle’s incredible journey and the revolution that followed
Ocean Conservancy Magazine, Spring 2007
Story by Andrew Myers

At Baja California, a few miles from shore where the land is just a thin ribbon on the horizon, the terns sometimes appear to walk on water. When you see their white feathers and bright orange beaks in the [...]

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Saving Our “Ocean Planet” is Critical, Wallace J. Nichols ‘89 Tells DePauw Discourse

October 14, 2007 – 10:39 am

DePauw University

Also: Incremental Environmental Change “No Longer is Appropriate,” Bill McKibben Tells Opening Discourse Sesssion
October 5, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - [Download Audio: "An Ocean Planet" - 422kb] “Our planet is an ocean planet, period,” exclaimed Wallace J. Nichols, senior researcher for Ocean Conservancy and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, this morning at DePauw Discourse [...]

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