Today Javier took us to a gorgeous estuary called Estero Coyote. There’s a little tourist place here called Camp Rene that has very cheap accommodations and was almost empty when we were there. But beautiful! The fishermen here grow oysters (they’re delicious and cost about 25 cents apiece). The estuary is filled with migratory and [...]
Guest blog by Stephen Dishart, Executive Director, Blue Ocean Institute To view Carl’s TEDx Oil Spill lecture click here. Safina points to gross negligence as the cause of the spill With a remarkable agenda of speakers, the hottest topic on the planet and a crowd of environmental experts and others eager for the latest word [...]
This was just forwarded to me and is sufficiently disturbing that I am posting it in its entirety here. Please send those letters to Walmart! —Carl Safina TortoiseAid International Action Alert CRUELTY AT WAL-MART In many North American Wal-Mart stores, “pet supply” sections have an area where photos and information about animals in need of [...]
The following op-ed appeared in LaNacion, on September 2, 2009. For the spanish version click here! Editor, La Nacion To the Editor, Many international conservationists are disturbed by news that Costa Rica’s Congress is considering a bill to do away with Las Baulas National Park. Baulas is not only absolutely vital to the existence of [...]
The sea turtles heading to Florida’s shores for their annual nesting ritual are true survivors. Unlike some of their kind, they’ve avoided getting snagged on commercial fishing lines that stretch for miles offshore. One particular trouble spot is the bottom longline fishery in the Gulf of Mexico. A snapshot of the statistics shows why… When [...]
The New York Times’ Andy Revkin writes, “Does the world need leatherback turtles? Most likely not.” http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/a-race-to-save-ancient-sea-turtle-species/ To morph into an actual question, this tiresomely vague query, “Does the world need…[fill in the blank],” has to ask: For what? For whom? Implied is that people are the same as “the world.” Accepting this bold assumption, [...]
The following is a guest blog by Megan Smith of Blue Ocean Institute: Recently, Land Rover launched an ad campaign (see below) that creates parallels between facts they deem either “useful” or useless.” I realize that many individuals have historically turned to Land Rover regarding matters of utility when facing such conundrums as: “Does this [...]
When I was writing my book “Voyage of the Turtle,” my focus was on the sumo wrestler among sea turtles, the gigantic Leatherback that can weigh a ton. But through my travels, concern about another species, the Loggerhead Turtle, also kept recurring. Two recent publications merit attention: 1) a new five-year global review of the [...]
On August 10th, The California Coastal Commission unanimously rejected a proposal to grant one fishing company a short-term permit to use longlines to target swordfish off the U.S. West Coast from Santa Barbara north into Oregon. Longline fishing (using a line tens of miles long with thousands of baited hooks) has been banned off California [...]
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