Green Grazing: More Articles about Sea Turtle Conservation

Here are links to recent articles and blogs about sea turtle conservation. First, new research shows how loggerhead turtles use the earth's magnetic field to navigate the thousands of miles along their oceanic migration routes during the years they spend at sea after hatching. Not only may these results be useful in sea turtle conservation, they may also bring new insights into navigation technology for humans. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) categorizes loggerhead sea turles as endangered. (see BBC News - Sea turtles' migration mystery is 'solved'). In a second story, U.S. conservations are pushing for regulatory action under the Endangered Species Act for the leatherback turtle along the U.S. West Coast (see World Environment News - Conservationists Push Action On Protected Turtles - Planet Ark). Finally, here is an interesting blog post from a marine conservation scientist travelling to Ecuador to research the effectiveness of efforts to encourage fishers to use marine conservation technologies, including special fish hooks, to reduce the unintentional catch of sea turtles (bycatch) (see To Ecuador, With Sea Turtles in Mind - NYTimes.com).