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Entanglement in Trinidad’s coastal gillnet fisheries is the largest source of mortality to leatherback sea turtles in the country, killing more turtles than all other factors combined and threatening to unravel several years of proactive conservation and management.. This strains fishers’ ability to operate economically, as nets damaged by sea turtles retain very little fish.
Read MoreIn July 2006, Zanzibar’s government passed bold legislation to outlaw the importation and use of plastic bags, which have noticeably polluted the marine and terrestrial environment of the archipelago in recent years.
Read MoreDespite its popularity in some regions, sea turtle may cause negative health effects when consumed by humans. In Mexico, several organizations are now collaborating with public health professionals to make available information about the connection between sea turtle consumption and human health.
Read MoreWan Smolbag, a community theater group, has been bringing topical issues to the people of Vanuatu since 1989 in a medium that is accessible to everyone regardless of their age, language, or education. All the tools the group needs for its work are kept in “one small bag”— hence its name in the local dialect.
Read MoreWhen Israeli and Hezbollah fighters went to war on July 12, 2006, the loggerhead nesting season in south Lebanon at Mansouri and Koliala beaches was in full swing. We had no plans to leave the beach, where we have conducted a monitoring program since 2000 with the help of the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles.
Read MoreIn the absence of enforcement of local and national urban planning in Zakynthos Bay, small-scale illegal buildings, walls, and roads have increasingly encroached on Zakynthos’ once-pristine nesting beach of Daphni.
Read MoreOn the day that the the act was introduced to the U.S. Senate, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma surprised lawmakers and the conservation community alike when he provided a primer on sea turtle biology and regaled the packed hearing room with tales of a young man who had worked on a sea turtle nesting beach in Texas.
Read More“There are 300 rioters outside, demanding to see you. They’re threatening to burn down the office.” It was eight o’clock in the morning in my home village in Bali, and this was not something I had expected to hear on the other end of the line.
Read MoreAmong the Middle East’s many fascinating inhabitants are the thousands of sea turtles that roam the region’s waters, feeding on a plethora of marine delicacies and arriving each year, with unfailing regularity, to nest on the region’s shores.
Read MoreLoggerheads have long been exploited in Brazil. Before 1980, nearly all loggerhead eggs laid along the Brazilian coast were poached, and most nesting females were taken for meat. This situation has vastly improved since the implementation of Projeto TAMAR-IBAMA, the Brazilian National Sea Turtle Conservation Program.
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