And when you realize that the casque of the turtle looks like an urban tessitura, and can we imagine, if we cut the casque of the turtle, how sad she's going to be?

And when you look at these 70 year old turtles, you can't tell the difference, just by looking, between those turtles and 20 year old turtles.

Please buy me a turtle, Mother, please buy me a turtle.

Buy me a turtle, Mom, please buy me a turtle!

Only one in a thousand leatherback hatchlings will reach maturity.

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.

Take a walk with a turtle.

Davidson, Turtle culture , draft unpublished chapter, Fire in the Turtle House The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean, Public Affairs NY, 2001.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

But I've also, over the last year or so, got in touch with my inner tortoise.

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

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.

A hare raced with a tortoise.

Sea turtles have a long lifespan.

Turtles are reptiles.

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

One delegation noted that not all species of turtles were in danger of extinction, and that some species were in fact increasing.

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.

It actually is a Japanese beetle.

The Indian Tortoise and the Chinese Hare

Betting on the Tortoise in Japan

Saving Sea Turtles, Making Money

For example, there are some tortoises called Blanding's turtles.

For instance, take these sea turtles.

This was Bert the Turtle.

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.

Some of the highlights were things like The Terminator, Aladdin, the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

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

The best example of quality of life is the turtle because the turtle is an example of living and working together.

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

In the sea, the nets drown turtles.

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

One such story I did documented the leatherback sea turtle.

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

Then there's George Schillinger and our leatherback team out of Playa Grande tagging leatherbacks that go right past where we are.

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.

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.

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.

Leatherbacks and tuataras are echoes from that era.

And every now and then, find a friend, find a turtle, and take a long, slow walk.

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,

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

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

The income earned by the residents of Gandoca, Costa Rica, from their conservation efforts amounted to 506 per leatherback turtle, 135.50 per nest and 1.70 per egg deposited on the beach.