A recent study titled “New Insights on Sea Turtle Behaviour During the ‘Lost Years’” by Phillips et al. provides additional support for the need for a positive finding of critical habitat…
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Hawai'i is one of the few places in the world where amazing, gentle and endangered sea turtles (locally known as “honu”) leave the ocean to rest, digest and warm up...
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A new scientific paper (with a long name), Multidecadal underwater surveys reveal declines in marine turtles by a collaboration of scientists and institutions, including Turtle Island Restoration Network, shows a…
Dear TIRN Community, Today, protecting our Planet, Oceans and People became a lot harder. But as Vice President Kamala Harris just stated during her concession speech, “This is not a...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Log Blog Part 1 NOTE: I hope you enjoy this blog series, AND I also hope you will take action to protect the wildlife...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 About Cocos Island: Part 2 Before dusk, some 30 hours later, I hear the boat engines turned off, eagerly awaiting sunrise and my first...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Cocos Log Blog Part 3 Sharks and Rays Scalloped hammerhead surrounded by a myriad of smaller fish (photo by Kaylam Pratt.) The iconic species...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Cocos Log Blog FISH! Part 4 So what are all those sharks eating? Cocos Island’s high productivity is fueled by upwellings created by the...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Cocos Log Blog Research Team Part 5 Our ongoing research at Cocos is focused on understanding the migration and ecology of endangered sharks, turtles...
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By Todd Steiner A new study out of Harvard and the University of Delaware published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405898121) document that industrial fishing supplies 70%…