| 10 March 2005 |
The Bottom Line: Saving Sea Turtles is Good for the Economy
By The Sea Turtle Restoration Project
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FOREST KNOLLS, CA — A new report, The Bottom Line: Saving Sea Turtles
is Good for the Economy, published by the Sea Turtle Restoration Project
today has found that industrial longline fishing in the Pacific not only
causes extensive damage to the marine ecosystem but has pervasive negative
cultural, economic and social consequences for coastal fishing and fish
consuming communities. .... more |
| March 2005 |
SOS Tobago Welcomes The Start of the 2005 Turtle Nesting Season |
March 1st 2005 marked the official close of the hunting season and Save Our Sea Turtles (SOS) Tobago spent the month busy getting ready for the start of turtle nesting with beach clean ups on the major nesting beaches, beach patrol training sessions and a "Welcome Turtle Party" to celebrate the turtles' return all in keeping with the SOS mission “to conserve Tobago’s sea turtles and their coastal and marine habitat through community based initiatives in research, education and eco-tourism”. .... more
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| 11 Dec. 2004 |
Replenishing Florida's Beaches |
Now that four hurricanes have washed away miles and miles of Florida's
golden beaches, it's the taxpayers' turn to put them back. Already there
is talk of the state spending nearly $70 million, the federal government
kicking in $116 million and local seaside communities adding another $22
million for beach restoration. Because tourism is such a huge industry in
Florida, sand is, literally, money. .... more |
| 28 July 2003 |
Killing turtles affects fishing and tourism |
Every year, many turtles are killed in Tobago to satisfy our seemingly
endless appetite for ‘wildmeat’ and this year seems to be no
different.
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| December 2003 |
Restrictions on turtle hunting in the open season. |
Following reports of turtle hunting at Kilygwyn in last week’s article, Environment TOBAGO and Save Our Sea Turtles (SOS) Tobago would like to remind the general public that while we are now in the ‘open’ hunting season, there are still restrictions on turtle hunting that apply.
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| June 2003 |
Sea turtles important to the fishing industry. |
Every year, many turtles are killed in Tobago to satisfy our seemingly endless appetite for ‘wildmeat’; in one week alone in 2003, three pregnant, female Leatherback turtles were slaughtered at Speyside, Bacolet and Turtle Beach, their carcasses left to rot in the sun.
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| 12 October 2002 |
SOS Tobago website publicised in the Wrexham Mail, a UK local newspaper |
SOS Tobago has received some useful publicity in the Wrexham Mail, a local
newspaper in our website design company Oraica's home town in the UK.
.... more
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| 24 September 2002 |
The plight of Tobago's sea turtles from Tanya Clovis of SOS Tobago. |
Tobago's reefs and sea grass beds sustain resident populations of Hawksbill
and Green sea turtles. From March to August, the waters around Tobago also
provide a temporary home to migratory breeding and nesting giant Leatherbacks. .... more |
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