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LeatherbackArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml/list.htmlScotsman,By CLAIRE GARDNER A LEATHERBACK turtle was spotted in an Edinburgh harbour by walkers taking a Sunday afternoon stroll. The marine reptile, dubbed "Lenny" 1000 Hooks Of Death - 16 Nov 2008 Green Muze,...potentially multiply by 3-6 times the number of critically endangered Pacific leatherback and threatened Pacific loggerheads harmed or killed as bycatch. Mosques Support Sea Turtle Conservation in Malaysia - 16 Nov 2008 Mongabay.comFour species of endangered marine turtles nest on these beaches, including the critically endangered Hawksbill and Leatherback turtles. Soft Rubber Harness Enables Researchers To Study Leatherback ... - Oct 27, 2008 Science Daily (press release)Jones’s study, however, is the only one to raise more than one leatherback in captivity from hatchling to juvenile and generated new information crucial for La Vida Leatherback - Oct 30, 2008 Monterey County Weekly,As leatherback turtles gulp down jellyfish, local researchers take advantage of this chance to learn more about the critically endangered reptiles. Endangered leatherback turtle needs protected 'swimways' - Oct 21, 2008 Wildlife Extra,The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) World Conservation Congress adopted a resolution urging nations to protect the leatherback BERNAMA.COM - Nov 6, 2008 Bernama,..."The Leatherback used to lay their eggs here but they hardly return as they were either caught in international waters or at the mercy of turtle-catching Prof recognized by Popular Science - Nov 7, 2008 Ubyssey Online,...by Sarah Chung Bringing the sexy back—leatherback that is. UBC doctoral candidate in zoology Todd Jones was named to Popular Science magazine’s prestigious Turtle coaxed back to sea - Oct 26, 2008 TheChronicleHerald.ca,By JENNIFER STEWART Staff Reporter It was the strangest day biologist Mike James can remember in his 10 years working with endangered leatherback sea Anyone for squid Jell-O? - Oct 21, 2008 Vancouver Sun,Academic Honours I The first step in raising a leatherback sea turtle in captivity is to stop the endangered creature from continually hitting its head on Major Progress Made Towards Historic Census Of Marine Life In 2010 - Nov 10, 2008 Science Daily (press release)A Mandarin language version of an interactive webpage tracks the migration of endangered leatherback turtles, bringing the race to approximately 100 million Study finds all sea turtles are related - Oct 21, 2008 United Press InternationalHowever, hawksbills tend to have a diet of glass -- they eat toxic sponges -- while the leatherback consumes jellyfish and the green grazes mainly on algae Critically endangered sea turtle saved from stranding - Nov 3, 2008 South Shore Now,...by Stacey Colwell Biologist Mike James and Laura Harris of the Canadian Sea Turtle Network collect barnacles from a live, endangered leatherback turtle Banner year for sea turtles - Nov 3, 2008 Charleston Post Courier,The rarer leatherback is its much larger cousin, the Kemp's ridley a smaller cousin. The Kemp's is known to nest regularly on only two beaches in the You’re just one obstacle to a sea turtle’s survival - Nov 15, 2008 The Virginian-Pilot,Loggerhead turtles are the largest population of sea turtles in Cape Hatteras, followed by green and leatherback . All are protected under the Endangered Environmentalists push for expropriations at Las Baulas Park - Oct 27, 2008 Guanacaste Journal,Quesada reminded legislators that Guanacaste’s Playa Grande is where 50 percent of the world’s remaining leatherback turtles (the largest of all sea Early Oil Baron and Prominent Cattlemen Estate Auction Promises to ... - Nov 12, 2008 MarketWatchLot 845 is a leatherback book set of fifteen volumes published in 1881 by Estes, Boston, entitled "Victor Hugo's Works". The following are other book sets Ridley's sea turtles make nearly 200 nests on Texas coast - Oct 24, 2008 Scripps News,These sites belonged to four green turtles, four loggerheads and one leatherback. "Kemp's really take on the role of keeping the momentum going for UBC student gets accolades - Oct 21, 2008 24 Hours Vancouver,Popular Science magazine tagged Jones in its "Brilliant 10" list for successfully changing the way leatherback sea turtles are raised in captivity by Torrance's Wilson Park hid an ocean of creatures - Oct 28, 2008 Daily Breeze,...(Bruce Hazelton/Staff Photographer) One massive leatherback sea turtle, which was at least 1-1/2 feet long and a foot wide. State's beaches draw record loggerhead turtle nesting - Oct 23, 2008 Creative Coast Initiative,Five species of sea turtle are found in waters off the Georgia coast: loggerhead, leatherback, green, hawksbill and Kemp’s ridley. Officials say increase in seat turtle nests locally - Nov 13, 2008 Naples Daily News,Leatherback and green turtle trends show a long-term increase. The loggerhead is the most common sea turtle in Florida waters. All sea turtles and their MNS bags Merdeka award - Nov 11, 2008 New Straits Times,Some of its prominent projects include the conservation of giant leatherback turtles in Terengganu (1963), Save Batu Caves campaign and research on the WWF: Gift Wrap a Polar Bear This Holiday Season - Nov 3, 2008 MarketWatchCanada is rich with extraordinary species, from the iconic polar bear to the leatherback turtle. However, threats to wildlife and their habitat have pushed Uptick in nests bodes well for loggerhead sea turtles – or does it? - Nov 8, 2008 Sun-Sentinel.com,The two endangered species, green and leatherback sea turtles, have seen a dramatic comeback during the last 20 years and their nesting numbers continue to Mediterranean turtle toll threatens survival - Oct 27, 2008 WWF International,...in the Mediterranean - loggerhead turtles, green turtles and leatherback turtles - are endangered and the leatherback turtle is critically endangered. NT 'a haven' for threatened turtles - Nov 3, 2008 The Age,But the leatherback turtle was confirmed at only one site on the Cobourg Peninsula, which is their only known regular nesting spot. The hawksbill turtle was Sea turtle found off Navotas - Nov 2, 2008 Philippine Star,...(Lepidochelys olivacea) and the leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea). Sea turtles vary in color - olive-green, yellow, greenish-brown, or black. Gearing up: Seeing double - Nov 1, 2008 Toronto Star,Author Andrew Bain offers suggestions for weekly adventures – from watching leatherback turtles in Trinidad to paragliding in the Swiss alps. Butchered dolphins, oceanic collapse and the myth of fish farms - Nov 11, 2008 Thought Leader,Over 250 000 Loggerback and critically endangered Leatherback turtles – unwanted catch in the search for tuna. • Over 300 000 seabirds are killed by Walk to save the turtles on Cape Cod - Nov 1, 2008 Wicked Local Hopedale,Most years, with the first real cold snap, endangered Kemp's Ridley, Green and Leatherback sea turtles wash up on the shores of Cape Cod Bay in significant ‘Operation Olive’ to protect turtles - Nov 9, 2008 Express Buzz,Apart from that the Centre’s Project Sea Turtle encompasses five endangered species - olive ridley, hawksbill, green turtle, leatherback and loggerhead Early turtle roundup upbeat - Oct 31, 2008 Florida Today,Leatherback turtles only had 24 nests this year, but Ehrhart said that number is deceiving. "We got double what we expected because this is a low season," Sea turtle nests thriving in North Carolina - Oct 31, 2008 StarNewsOnline.com,He said green and leatherback sea turtles, which also nest on the Sunshine State’s beaches, are showing bigger increases than the more common loggerheads. Horror Show - Nov 4, 2008 Audubon Magazine,They are known to have killed and eaten striped skunks and opossums, hatchling leatherback sea turtles, and young night-herons, and ranchers complain that Mexico's Riviera Nayarit delights village hoppers - Oct 23, 2008 Vancouver Sun,From mid-June to November the endangered Olive Ridley and Leatherback turtles are so intent on egg laying they barely notice that members and volunteers of A million tonnes of North Sea fish discarded every year - Nov 6, 2008 PR-CANADA.net (press release),This hidden fishing impact is already known to have contributed to the catastrophic decline in species such as the Pacific Leatherback Turtle, Malaysian police seize 10000 smuggled turtle eggs - Nov 2, 2008 Monsters and Critics.comDespite campaigns educating locals to refrain from collecting, selling or buying eggs of the endangered leatherback turtle, egg poaching continues to be a Stop hunting threatened species - Oct 30, 2008 Sun2Surf,...sambar deer, bearcat, leopard, hairy-nosed otter, pangolin, bearded pig, tapir, tiger, river terrapin, leatherback turtle and the giam kanching tree. 2008 Sea Turtle Nesting Data Fails to Express Dire Status - Oct 27, 2008 TransWorldNews (press release),Data from a decades-long monitoring study, conducted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, shows that while leatherback and green sea turtle Scriber Lake High School senior Justine Davies, 18, would like to ... - Oct 23, 2008 HeraldNet,Turtle time: Watched a 5-foot-long leatherback turtle lay 33 eggs on a white sand beach in Costa Rica. Visited the country last spring on a school trip. Imperial Oil Foundation supports turtles, trails, and tides.... - Oct 22, 2008 Canada NewsWire (press release),...<< Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society ----------------------------------- Off the south coast of Newfoundland, endangered leatherback sea turtles are often Fotograf: Terje Smestad - Nov 1, 2008 Norges Rytterforbund,På båtturen hjem igjen så vi både "leatherback" og "green turtle". Vi hadde en fantastisk bra dag i går med mye opplevelser, men det meste av tiden bruker [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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