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"Based on a true story, this enchanted book tells the tale of a young sea turtle named Eartha who finds help in the last place she expects."--Back cover.
Author : Dan Bodenstein
Publisher : Totem Tales Publishing
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Sea turtles
ISBN : 0984322809
"Based on a true story, this enchanted book tells the tale of a young sea turtle named Eartha who finds help in the last place she expects."--Back cover.
Author : Dan Bodenstein
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2011-06-18
Category :
ISBN : 9780984322817
Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1429900865
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans and its creatures. As Voyage of the Turtle, Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the astonishing leatherback turtle, whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, is in our hands. Writing with verve and color, Safina describes how he and his colleagues track giant pelagic turtles across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua, New Guinea. The only surviving species of its genus, family, and suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. In his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are finally playing a significant role in their survival. "Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care." -- The Los Angeles Times
Author : Mary Māden
Publisher : Mary Maden Children's Books
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Sea turtles
ISBN : 9781890479633
Pancake, a sea turtle, and her babies are saved by a young girl who works in a hopital just for sea turtles.
Author : James R. Spotila
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0801880076
Marine biologist James R. Spotila has spent much of his life unraveling the mysteries of these graceful creatures and working to ensure their survival. In "Sea Turtles," he offers a comprehensive and compelling account of their history and life cycle based on the most recent scientific data and suggests what we can be done to save them. Illustrated with stunning, full-color photographs. 0-808-8007-6$24.95 / Johns Hopkins University Press
Author : James R. Spotila
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801899072
In April 2007, eleven leatherback turtles captured the imagination of the public worldwide as they “raced” from Costa Rica toward the Galápagos Islands. Known as the Great Turtle Race, this event tracked these critically endangered sea turtles, drawing attention to their fragile status and generating data on the turtles vital to efforts to study and protect them. But the Great Turtle Race is just one of many tools marine conservationists use to inform people about the status, biology, and lives of the seven sea turtle species. Due to human actions, once-plentiful sea turtle population levels plummeted throughout much of the twentieth century, stabilizing somewhat only after Archie Carr and Jacques Cousteau popularized their plight. With Saving Sea Turtles, award-winning author James R. Spotila picks up where Carr and Cousteau left off, going inside the modern-day conservation movement to tell the tales of today’s sea turtle conservationists. He provides a complete overview of sea turtle biology and life cycles, discusses the human and natural world threats they face, and examines the new methods and technologies humans are using to save them. Throughout, Spotila dots the narrative with stories of real-life heroes who risk life and limb to understand, track, and conserve sea turtles across the globe. Spotila has been at the forefront of sea turtle research and conservation for decades. His inspirational story of dedicated individuals, creative endeavors, and adventure reveals what is being done and what else we must do in order to ensure that these fascinating animals continue swimming in the oceans.
Author : Jenny Goebel
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0807581151
The remarkable true story of the first sea turtle to be tracked across the Pacific Ocean. One moonlit night, a young loggerhead sea turtle crawled into the ocean. As she swam and rode currents, she wandered far from the beach where she'd hatched. How far? Nobody knew for sure. In 1996, this turtle, caught in Mexico, was given a name—Adelita—and a satellite tag was attached to her shell. Then she was set free in the Pacific Ocean. Adelita’s astonishing journey home led to a new understanding of sea turtles and inspired changes that have made the world a better place for them.
Author : Philippe Cousteau
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452154120
"A book about loggerhead sea turtles, and a girl's attempts to help save their babies from man-made light."--
Author : Stephen Whitt
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615923098
Whitt follows a mother sea turtle on the most difficult and dangerous journey of her life, the journey home to lay her eggs. This elegantly told story captures the many wonders that science discovers in the natural world while teaching children essential facts of astronomy, chemistry, and biology.
Author : Lucy Leather. . . as told to M. Stroshane
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781312682436
Lucy Leatherback is a giant sea turtle whose kind has lived on earth with the dinosaurs. Can she and her other friends survive the work of humans? This is her story.