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Tuesdays with Turtles – Wednesday Hook Edition

Posted in Food, sea turtles, tagged , , , , on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

WWF – Fishing Technology That’s Letting Turtles Off the Hook -
Turns out that a small change in hook design can save a lot of turtles from getting caught in longline hooks. But the story’s not really about the shape of the hook. I’ve written about this before. The issue is rarely one of technology. The [...]

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Tuesdays with Turtles – Triumphant Return

Posted in sea turtles, tagged , on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

So, blogging has been light this summer as Olive Ridley’s partner made her way to Canada and is settling in. Also, it is summer in BC and beautiful as hell, so the prospect of sitting down and typing on a computer with brains that are only half working, well, ain’t so hot! Also, Canada is [...]

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100s of turtles die in Andhra Pradesh

Posted in sea turtles on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

  I have written about turtle excluder devices (TEDs) and how they save adult turtles lives previously. So, this story is an utterly avoidable tragedy brought about by the lack of implementation of laws regulating the use of TEDs.
The death of hundreds of Olive Ridley turtles along the Paravada coast in December 2007 [...]

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Casuarina plantations and the Olive Ridley

Posted in sea turtles on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Students’ Sea Turtle Conservation Network was featured in the Hindu today.
Sea turtle lovers are concerned at the disturbance caused to turtle nesting habitats along the Tamil Nadu coastline, where casuarinas have been raised by the State Forest Department.The sea turtle’s egg-laying season began a month ago. Volunteers of the Chennai-based Students’ Sea Turtle [...]

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The Students’ Sea Turtle Conservation Network

Posted in South Asia, sea turtles on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Students’ Sea Turtle Conservation Network
The organization that started my interest in Environmental issues is finally online at their fledgling website, http://www.sstcn.org. It is a proud moment!
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Tags: oliveridley, chennai, sea turtles, conservation

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Small-Scale Fisheries Bycatch Jeopardizes Loggerheads

Posted in sea turtles on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This is almost a 1000 juveniles killed in a year in Baja California alone. The authors mention that over 99% of all fisherpeople are employed in small scale fisheries, which surprised me.
PLoS ONE: Small-Scale Fisheries Bycatch Jeopardizes Endangered Pacific Loggerhead Turtles:
Although bycatch of industrial-scale fisheries can cause declines in migratory megafauna including seabirds, [...]

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Now we know where Juvenile sea turtles Hide

Posted in sea turtles on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

You see the hatchlings as they dig out of the nests all small and helpless and make a beeline towards the sea. You see the adult female as she comes back to lay her eggs. You see adult males when you go snorkeling , but the juveniles had kept a low profile, until now…
Sea turtles’ [...]

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Tuesdays with Turtles – Archie Carr Edition

Posted in sea turtles on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Archie Carr is considered the father of modern sea turtle research. And now, there’s a book about him about to come out. It’s called “The Man who Saved Sea Turtles”.
Well, I guess saved is going a little too far. I would have said “postponed the extinction of”, given the imminent extinction of the Pacific [...]

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Tuesdays with Turtles -Thursday Edition – Pacific Leatherbacks in Trouble

Posted in sea turtles on July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Personal Note
I swear, this blog has gone to pot. Either I’ve been too busy at work (yes, that does not explain everything), or I have not been thinking enough. I started this blog so that when I saw something interesting, I would have to think a little bit, and gather some information to write about [...]

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Tuesdays with Turtles – Wednesday Edition

Posted in sea turtles on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Where I’m a day late and a dollar short. It turns out that the Mediterranean sea is awash with plastic and most of the loggerheads there have swallowed plastic bags. So, the next time you’re out looking for loggerhead nests and find one in which all the eggs have been double bagged, do not be [...]

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