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LeatherbackArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.htmlHollister Free LanceDemolition of the former GAF Leatherback property on mccray Street and Prospect Avenue will begin soon and is scheduled to be complete within Leatherback turtle found on Cherry Hill Beach - 06 Aug 2009 Nova News NowCherry Hill residents and university researchers flocked to Cherry Hill Beach July 30, when an endangered leatherback turtle was Pacific sea turtle protection committee meets - 06 Aug 2009 Honolulu AdvertiserThe council has supported protecting and managing important loggerhead and leatherback nesting beaches in Japan, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Take steps to protect the Hawksbill - 06 Aug 2009 Malaysia StarThe state government should not go down the same path as Terengganu, infamous for the decline of the Leatherback turtles. It should take every measure to Unlocking The Mysteries Of Leatherback Turtles - Aug 5, 2009 Cape Cod ChronicleIt's the leatherback turtle, and it's the subject of a research project that bases some of its operations in Harwich Port. Leatherback turtle washed ashore - Aug 3, 2009 Yorke Peninsula Country TimesCharlie Mines, of Moonta Bay, stands alongside the leatherback turtle found south of Cooper's Reef, Port Hughes. A leatherback turtle has washed onto the Leatherback Turtles Released at Mayport Beach - Aug 1, 2009 First Coast NewsSeveral baby leatherback turtles were released at Mayport Beach. Naval Station Mayport Game Warden Arthur Burt helped with the release Saturday. Scientists Sail to Pacific Plastic Garbage Patch - Aug 4, 2009 LiveScience.comResearchers are concerned not only about the effect of the plastic itself -- which has been shown to be a major cause of death in endangered leatherback Eating plastic bag may have killed turtle - Aug 3, 2009 Irish TimesMARINE SCIENTISTS believe that a leatherback turtle which was washed up last week on the northern shore of Galway Bay may have died from ingesting a plastic Patrol rescues leatherback turtle - Jul 25, 2009 St. Augustine RecordExamination of a leatherback sea turtle nest Saturday on Vilano Beach revealed one live baby, 52 eggs that had hatched, 20 dead turtles and 20 eggs that did Search for turtles in Costa Rica - Aug 2, 2009 DesMoinesRegister.comEach spring and summer, dozens of endangered leatherback turtles lumber out of the water at Gandoca to lay their eggs. They're massive creatures, Leatherbacks feast off the coast - Jul 19, 2009 San Jose Mercury NewsMany people don't realize that the Central Coast is one of the destinations for the seasonal migration of the Pacific leatherback turtle. 700-pound turtle found in Cape Cod Bay - Jul 28, 2009 Cape Cod TimesBARNSTABLE - A 700-pound leatherback turtle entangled in fishing gear was discovered this afternoon in Cape Cod Bay about a mile and a half Sri Lanka, a gift of life for endangered turtles - Jul 26, 2009 Economic TimesThe turtles taken care of at the sanctuary include green turtles, loggerhead turtles, leatherback turtles, hawk's bill turtles and Olive Ridley turtles. Carnarvon concludes NW Shelf review - Jul 30, 2009 PennEnergyThe acreage is located between the Pyrenees and Macedon oil and gas fields and the Leatherback oil accumulation. The current work program involves Marine life heats up off Wales as turtles and sharks swim in - Jul 16, 2009 WalesOnlineRare leatherback turtles, basking sharks, large groups of jellyfish and superpods of dolphins have all been spotted in Welsh seas in the past few weeks. Early explorer relics find home in Singapore museum - Jul 29, 2009 Reuters India...holders and a Dayak war-coat of bark and fish scales to natural history specimens such as an over 2-meter leatherback turtle and a rare summit rat. Sandpoint students help turtles in Costa Rica - Jul 12, 2009 The Spokesman ReviewHere, they dig nests for leatherback turtle eggs. Photo by Sam Levora Sandpoint Middle School eighth-grade student Devan Fitzpatrick has a pretty good idea Turn Turtle: Talk Will Raise Awareness of Manx Sea Life - Jul 27, 2009 isleofman.comThe Leatherback Turtle (pictured), the largest of the marine turtles, is a seasonal visitor to British Waters. Its staple diet is jellyfish and, Crabby's not coming to Madeira Beach - Jul 21, 2009 Tampa Bay NewspapersMADEIRA BEACH – The planned opening of Crabby's Shrimp Shack in the vacant Leatherback's Steak House and adjacent properties on Madeira Way Mascot 'Maco' new activist in fight against HIV/AIDS - Jul 27, 2009 Trinidad & Tobago Express...of the river courses, Stella-the Leatherback Turtle: as the ocean messenger and Chipo-the Green Parrot: as the speaker and alarmist on any occasion. 150 hatchlings of largest sea turtles released in the capital's beach - Jul 27, 2009 Dominican TodayThe Environment Ministry (SEMARENA) announced the birth of at least 150 leatherback turtles in the last few weeks in nests in La Altagracia and Samaná Fishing in Mexico-fish tales part 3 - Jul 20, 2009 Examiner.comHome to the humpback whale, leatherback sea turtles, and a large variety of rays, the sea is teeming with life and over 900 islands. "Volun-Tourism" Catching On - Aug 3, 2009 CBS NewsWhether it's helping to save Leatherback sea turtles in Costa Rica, delivering crucial medical supplies to an orphanage in El Salvador, helping to build a Pearl Jam Eye Return to the Road - Jul 14, 2009 American SongwriterThe Great Turtle Race followed eleven leatherback sea turtles as they migrated from their “foraging grounds in the frigid waters of Canada to nesting Turtle Time: Participate In Rare Turtle Hatching In Mexico's ... - Aug 5, 2009 TravelVideo.tv (press release) (press release)The leatherback turtles, Olive Ridley turtles, hawksbill turtles, and green turtles all use the 192 mile coastline of Nayarit as a nesting site every year. [ Not interested in snail mail? How about some turtle mail? ] - Jul 22, 2009 Marketing MagazineHalifax-based Canadian Sea Turtle Network has launched a direct mail effort that aims to help save the leatherback sea turtle, a critically endangered Similan Islands - Turtles & reefs tours in December - Jul 18, 2009 Travel DiveNot observed on Similan Islands many years The leatherback is only known to nest on the Andaman Coast. The leatherback has been listed as globally Chiquita and Rewe in Panama link-up - Jul 19, 2009 FreshinfoLocal and international volunteers are currently monitoring the hatching season of leatherback sea turtles, as well as the natural habitat for endangered Children Learn 'Save Our Seas' Message - Jul 14, 2009 isleofman.comThe diet of a Leatherback Turtle and the truth about the sharks were amongst the many facts learnt by classes at St John's Primary School last Friday (10th Pearl Jam Set Release Date - Jul 10, 2009 ChartAttackBackspacer was also the name of Pearl Jam's 375-kilogram leatherback turtle that won the Great Turtle Race in April. The record will be exclusively News half good for turtles in Lee County - Aug 1, 2009 The News-PressFive sea turtle species nest on Florida beaches: Kemp's ridley, leatherback, hawksbill and green sea turtles are endangered species; loggerheads, School nurse earning global degree - Aug 2, 2009 Middletown Journal...tag leatherback sea turtles in Trinidad, explore tropical rainforest ecology in Costa Rica, and research marine and terrestrial ecosystems in Baja, Alberta Man Gored to Death by Bison - Aug 3, 2009 AOL CanadaDarrin Bush, Las Vegas News Bureau / AP An international team of scientists has discovered the world's largest nesting population of leatherback turtles Tortuguero - Costa Rica Less Traveled - Jul 31, 2009 Beachside ResidentMultitudes of loggerhead, hawksbill, leatherback, and the rare green sea turtle literally flock to this isolated seashore to dig their nests and lay their The Met Office thinks August will be wet. Buy futures in sun cream now - Jul 30, 2009 guardian.co.ukThe result is lost in chaos theory, vulnerable to a butterfly in Greenland or a leatherback in the Caribbean. Yet whenever criticised, the Met Office pleads Human activity is driving Earth's 'sixth great extinction event' - Jul 28, 2009 guardian.co.ukThe leatherback turtle is endangered - but scienti�c reports expose worrying signs of mass extinctions among other wildlife species. "It is - still - the best zoological blog out there, period" - Jul 31, 2009 ScienceBlogsThere are more giant animals that could be dissected for TV - I'm thinking big sharks, ostriches and leatherback turtles - but there's also the exciting T&T aims to top turtle tourism - Jul 29, 2009 Trinidad & Tobago ExpressDedier said that this country is one of the top turtle-nesting sites in the world, with an average of 500 leatherback turtles coming to these shores per We can only hope best-seller sparks interest in local shrimp industry - Jul 30, 2009 Hilton Head Island PacketShe urged her audiences to sign a petition to protest a new threat in Costa Rica to the last nesting beach for leatherback turtles in the eastern Pacific. Students prepare for Costa Rica science trek - Jul 22, 2009 Minneapolis Star TribuneThe students also will spend a few days at Playa Grande, home of the famous Costa Rican leatherback turtles. They'll study the beach ecology by touring the Pearl Jam starts their North American tour in Seattle on September ... - Jul 17, 2009 Examiner.comAccording to CHART Attack,�Backspacer was the name of Pearl Jam's 375-kilogram leatherback turtle that won the Great Turtle Race in April. Fishing around: In praise of the wily, savvy swimmer - Jul 15, 2009 Cape Cod TimesAnd there was a circa 700-pound leatherback turtle floating out here this week. 5. The Great Backside Beach — As Paul at Blackbeard's said, Week of events based around basking sharks - Jul 30, 2009 Isle of Man TodayHosted by Peter Richardson from the Marine Conservation Society, it will be a chance to find out about Leatherback turtles, which are occasionally seen Marine mammals get helping hand - Jul 23, 2009 Canada.comBalloons are particularly dangerous for species such as leatherback turtles as they resemble jellyfish, the turtles' main prey, she said. Okay, lazybones – it's time to reboot the mind - Jul 22, 2009 Edmonds BeaconOr “From Aphrodisiacs to Chopsticks: Leatherback Turtles and African Elephants.� How's that again? Or “What Are Tom, Maureen and David Saying?� Beats me. Native knows the art of taking advantage of every opportunity - Jul 22, 2009 Chetek AlertThe school is also active in helping local conservationists tag and weigh the world's largest sea turtle, the endangered leatherback sea turtle, Wales on course for shopping bag charges - Jul 20, 2009 WalesOnlineThe society warned that 170 species of wildlife, including seabirds, whales and the rare leatherback turtle that travels 10000 miles from Mexico to Wales to Anguilla National Trust Establishes the Anguilla Sea Turtle ... - Jul 29, 2009 Anguilla LNT...also led two night “turtle patrols� at Captain's Bay – an important mainland nesting beach for the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle. 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