Davidson, Turtle culture , draft unpublished chapter, Fire in the Turtle House The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean, Public Affairs NY, 2001.

So do sea turtles.

It is the link between the two.

Sea turtles have a long lifespan.

Turtles are reptiles.

The near total extinction from 1994 to 2002 created a collapse in sea turtle tourism and revenues.

In the sea, the nets drown turtles.

He sent them ashore for turtles.

We did this with the Great Turtle Race tagged turtles, brought in four million hits.

Developing countries account for a striking 78 91 percent of the countries where five of the seven species of sea turtles live, and 61 percent of these countries are home to two or more turtle species.

The cost of illegal fishing of green sea turtles in Costa Rica in 2000 was estimated to be 1,142 per turtle due to losses in visitors to nesting beaches and habitats when populations decline.

Saving Sea Turtles, Making Money

Now, these fellows aren't looking for turtles.

Leatherback sea turtles get hooked on longlines and often drown before the line is reeled and the sea turtle can be released.

Failure to reverse marine turtle decline would imply a replacement cost for nesting females through captive breeding estimated at U.S. 245.9 million 263.3 million for green turtles and 2.5 billion for leatherback turtles.

For instance, take these sea turtles.

Their captain adores turtle soup. Hmm?

Globally, the average gross revenue earned from locations where sea turtles were a major attraction for tourists was 2.9 times higher than areas where they were consumed as food.

On nesting beaches, they entangle young ones (Ross, 1987).

The remains of sea turtles and other marine creatures were evident within many of the nets.

For example, revenue from sea turtle tourism at the leatherback nesting beach at Playa Grande, Costa Rica, was 1,121,057 in 2002.

Turtles eat it. It gets in the gills of fish.

By Robert Ovetz, Ph.D., Sea Turtle Restoration Project

Yesterday an Ama girl rode her boat into Rosaki.

Most threatened by industrial longline fishing are leatherback sea turtles which migrate thousands of miles across the Pacific to lay their eggs, feed and reproduce.

Leatherbacks and tuataras are echoes from that era.

Governments spend money on sea turtle conservation because of the role turtles play in maintaining healthy sea grass and coral reef ecosystems, reducing sponges and jellyfish, preserving the cultural and spiritual heritage of island and coastal communities, and attracting ecotourism.

I've lived my whole life in this house and never had a corner where I could put a turtle.

As a consequence of the global distribution of sea turtles, the future of marine turtle populations and their potential to generate benefits to human societies depend mainly on policies implemented in countries with developing economies.

Similar excellent results were reached in the reduction of marine turtle by catch in the shrimp fishery through the use of turtle exclusion devices on all Mexican shrimp vessels.

Discarded and abandoned fishing nets are catching and killing marine turtles.

Noting with satisfaction the recent entry into force of the Inter American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles and Their Habitats, which contains provisions to minimize the incidental catch of sea turtles in fishing operations,

The cook said the captain wants turtle soup or nothing. s. He's sick of coconut

Turtle is the foundation. Likewise, in Samoa the belief that the islands float upon the backs of giant sea turtles goes back many generations in China many place the entire universe on the back of the sea turtle, and the people of Tokelau and Bora Bora believe their peoples were carried to one another's island on the back of a sea turtle.

In fact, a number of communities in developing countries home to sea turtle nesting habitats have profited from successful efforts to conserve sea turtle populations through enhanced eco tourism.

And up will come mangroves, and sea turtles and your own kidneys.

Most of the turtles, sharks, tunas and whales are way down in numbers.

The cost of rearing turtles in captivity suggests that conservation of marine turtles in the wild is less expensive. In effect, the necessary cost to recover the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle is equal to one half the global annual revenue earned by longline fishing, the largest threat to its survival.

18. Turtle fishing, a traditional Caymanian occupation, is now strictly limited by a licensing system the number of licences issued each year is outnumbered by the young turtles released into the sea from the Cayman Turtle Farm.

Conversely, developing countries would benefit most increasing sea turtle populations.

25. Invites States entitled to become parties to the Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation Measures for Marine Turtles of the Atlantic Coast of Africa and the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation and Management of Marine Turtles and Their Habitats of the Indian Ocean and South East Asia to consider doing so, and to participate in their work

These are the countries that stand to lose most from continued marine turtle decline.

In actuality you are water. Water?

Life is all in the breathing.

A tortoise?