The Fight to Save Western Pacific Leatherbacks
Sand crunches beneath bare feet as the rangers walk along the beach. Voices muffled, they scan the tide line with flashlights, looking for the wide tire-tread marks left behind by…
Satellite Tracking Endangered Pacific Leatherback Turtles
“Turtle coming up, turtle coming up. Sector 25.” I’m sitting on a driftwood log, watching waves crash against the moonlit shore when the walkie-talkie crackles. It’s just after 9:30 pm;…
Women Lead Leatherback Conservation in the Solomon Islands
“In the past, we treated turtles like they were our enemy.” I’m sitting on the wooden verandah of the ranger station at Haevo, a narrow black-sand beach in the Solomon…
It Takes A Village – Cool Green Science
In the conservation world, much is made over exciting new scientific advances. NGOs pride themselves on being science-based, journalists write about new technologies that could help pull an endangered species…
To Save Pacific Turtles, Focus on Small-Scale Fisheries
Longline fisheries are a well-recognized threat to sea turtles. But a new study finds that local, small-scale fisheries cause significantly greater mortality, harvesting up to 97% of the ~12,000 turtles…