Celebrate Earth Hour and do something about climate change and global warming that is harming our ocean ecoystems and the sea turtles that live there.
Learn more at www.earthhour.org
Saving energy means slowing climate change and helping our oceans be healthy for all living creatures!
I'm sure you can find something to do with your hour in the dark...
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Please donate $10 to www.seaturtle.org by January 31!
Hola from the International Sea Turtle Symposium in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico!
Please visit the great free website - www.seaturtle.org - and, if you can, help by donating $10 before January 31. SeaTurtle.Org is competing for a $50,000 prize to keep up its great work. You can help move them ahead in the competition if you donate today.
While you're there, check out all the great sea turtle resources available on SeaTurtle.Org.
Muchas gracias!
Monday, January 7, 2008
Grupo Tortguero and International Sea Turtle Symposium in Baja this month
Once again, I am heading down to Loreto in Baja California Sur, Mexico, for the annual Grupo Tortuguero meeting from January 19-20, 2008. I will be participating at the conference through the great people at ProPeninsula, which is based in San Diego and does amazing work in Baja for sea turtles and other community-based conservation efforts (Consider supporting them with a sea turtle adoption - it's a fun gift).
Following the 10th annual meeting of Grupo Tortuguero, I'll be attending the 28th International Sea Turtle Society Symposium held January 21-26 of 2008.
Following the 10th annual meeting of Grupo Tortuguero, I'll be attending the 28th International Sea Turtle Society Symposium held January 21-26 of 2008.
Friday, June 1, 2007
World Ocean Day Events in San Francisco and Marin
Please help spread the word:
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/eli@oceanhealth.org/oceandaysf
Invite your friends to this free event!
Friday, 08 June 2007
The Gallery Lounge
510 Brannan Street
San Francisco, California 94107
(415) 227-0449
www.thegallerylounge.net
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/eli@oceanhealth.org/oceandaysf
Invite your friends to this free event!
Friday, 08 June 2007
The Gallery Lounge
510 Brannan Street
San Francisco, California 94107
(415) 227-0449
www.thegallerylounge.net
8:00pm - 11:00pm:
Preview Ocean related films and meet several leaders in the Ocean Conservation community including filmmakers, marine biologists, and other notable guests of honor at the Gallery Lounge, a cocktail lounge and art gallery located in the SOMA district near downtown San Francisco at Brannan and 4th Streets (across from the Bank of America).
Saturday, 09 June 2007
The Lark Theater
549 Magnolia Avenue
Larkspur, California 94939
(415) 924-5111
www.larktheater.net
12:00pm - 4:00pm:
Join us for the screenings of several Ocean related films, including Sharks: Stewards of the Reef, and other short films like Thank You Ocean. You'll have an opportunity to meet some of the filmmakers in attendance, and learn more about how you can help.
The Lark is a non-profit historical single screen theater built in 1936, and shows first run and independent films.
These events are brought to you by COARE, Oceanhealth.org, Ocean Revolution, Sharks: Stewards of the Reef, San Francisco Surfrider Foundation, The Marine Mammal Center, The Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
To learn more about World Ocean Day, or to find events in other areas, please visit www.worldoceanday.org
To learn more about World Ocean Day, or to find events in other areas, please visit www.worldoceanday.org
Friday, May 18, 2007
May 18, Endangered Species Day
Today is Endangered Species Day and a great time to remember the endangered sea turtles of the world, especially the leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles.
Too busy to learn more or too broke to donate to help? Well, this weekend, give up shrimp, tuna, swordfish, and shark because fishing for those seafood options leads to many turtle deaths each year. So how about giving them up if only for the weekend?
Too busy to learn more or too broke to donate to help? Well, this weekend, give up shrimp, tuna, swordfish, and shark because fishing for those seafood options leads to many turtle deaths each year. So how about giving them up if only for the weekend?
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Urgent: Ask Costa Rica to Protect the Leatherback Turtle National Marine Park
http://redtortugasmarinascr.org/_mgxroot/page_10731.html
Before Thursday, April 19, please go to the website above and send your e-mail asking Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sánchez to protect nesting sea turtles.
The Leatherback Turtle National Marine Park in Costa Rica is threatened by tourism development and needs protection so that the last foothold of the leatherback nesting beaches can be preserved to help the critically endangered sea turtles.
Please learn more and respond today. You can help save sea turtles, too!
http://redtortugasmarinascr.org/_mgxroot/page_10731.html
Before Thursday, April 19, please go to the website above and send your e-mail asking Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sánchez to protect nesting sea turtles.
The Leatherback Turtle National Marine Park in Costa Rica is threatened by tourism development and needs protection so that the last foothold of the leatherback nesting beaches can be preserved to help the critically endangered sea turtles.
Please learn more and respond today. You can help save sea turtles, too!
http://redtortugasmarinascr.org/_mgxroot/page_10731.html
Friday, April 13, 2007
Watch "Voyage of the Lonely Turtle" on PBS, Apr. 15
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/
From April 15, PBS stations across the nation will start broadcasting a new documentary about the amazing journey of the loggerhead sea turtles that is titled, "VOYAGE OF THE LONELY TURTLE." Check you local station for times and other dates. Be sure to check out this great story about sea turtles. Lots of interesting things on the PBS website, including downloads and games.
"A solitary loggerhead turtle in the middle of a vast ocean may not sound like an adventure film, but stick with her. Along her 9000-mile voyage to nest, our loggerhead tour guide in VOYAGE OF THE LONELY TURTLE encounters hammerhead sharks, deep ocean tempests, and man-made death traps in the form of fishing nets and hooks. Her body of well-suited armor and specialized adaptations for deep-ocean dwelling will help the sea turtle evade many of the ocean's menaces. But this is just one set of challenges to overcome. Here is another: she must find her way across the Pacific, from Mexico to a small stretch of beach in Japan, a precise location that she has been to just once before, as a two-inch hatchling, decades ago.
Researchers have learned a great deal about how this curious creature could make such a phenomenal voyage. Some of the most valuable information was gained from a single voyage. Scientist Wallace J. Nichols released the captive loggerhead turtle, Adelita, into the Pacific a decade ago. Over the course of a year, Adelita did what no sea turtle had ever done before, she took researchers and turtle enthusiasts along on her journey, to her beach, to nest. Since then, researchers have shed much light on how sea turtles like loggerheads navigate the astounding trip. One of the more fascinating aspects of this navigation is the turtle's use of magnetic mapping to chart its course.
NATURE'S VOYAGE OF THE LONELY TURTLE premieres Sunday, April 15th at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check your local listings)"
From April 15, PBS stations across the nation will start broadcasting a new documentary about the amazing journey of the loggerhead sea turtles that is titled, "VOYAGE OF THE LONELY TURTLE." Check you local station for times and other dates. Be sure to check out this great story about sea turtles. Lots of interesting things on the PBS website, including downloads and games.
"A solitary loggerhead turtle in the middle of a vast ocean may not sound like an adventure film, but stick with her. Along her 9000-mile voyage to nest, our loggerhead tour guide in VOYAGE OF THE LONELY TURTLE encounters hammerhead sharks, deep ocean tempests, and man-made death traps in the form of fishing nets and hooks. Her body of well-suited armor and specialized adaptations for deep-ocean dwelling will help the sea turtle evade many of the ocean's menaces. But this is just one set of challenges to overcome. Here is another: she must find her way across the Pacific, from Mexico to a small stretch of beach in Japan, a precise location that she has been to just once before, as a two-inch hatchling, decades ago.
Researchers have learned a great deal about how this curious creature could make such a phenomenal voyage. Some of the most valuable information was gained from a single voyage. Scientist Wallace J. Nichols released the captive loggerhead turtle, Adelita, into the Pacific a decade ago. Over the course of a year, Adelita did what no sea turtle had ever done before, she took researchers and turtle enthusiasts along on her journey, to her beach, to nest. Since then, researchers have shed much light on how sea turtles like loggerheads navigate the astounding trip. One of the more fascinating aspects of this navigation is the turtle's use of magnetic mapping to chart its course.
NATURE'S VOYAGE OF THE LONELY TURTLE premieres Sunday, April 15th at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check your local listings)"
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