For example, revenue from sea turtle tourism at the leatherback nesting beach at Playa Grande, Costa Rica, was 1,121,057 in 2002.

The income earned by the residents of Gandoca, Costa Rica, from their conservation efforts amounted to 506 per leatherback turtle, 135.50 per nest and 1.70 per egg deposited on the beach.

A representative of a non governmental organization underlined the near extinction of the leatherback turtle as a result of long line fishing in the Pacific and called for a moratorium on that practice.

Failure to reverse marine turtle decline would imply a replacement cost for nesting females through captive breeding estimated at U.S. 245.9 million 263.3 million for green turtles and 2.5 billion for leatherback turtles.

One of the largest threats to their survival is pelagic industrial longline fishing. Leatherback sea turtles get hooked on longlines and often drown before the line is reeled and the sea turtle can be released.

Description The bog turtle is the smallest species of turtle in North America.

Only one in a thousand leatherback hatchlings will reach maturity.

This was Bert the Turtle.

The cost of rearing turtles in captivity suggests that conservation of marine turtles in the wild is less expensive. In effect, the necessary cost to recover the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle is equal to one half the global annual revenue earned by longline fishing, the largest threat to its survival.

Some of the islands harbor the heavily exploited turtle eggs and yet the largest green turtle nesting site in Indonesia.

This is Tom's pet turtle. She's called Mary.

By Robert Ovetz, Ph.D., Sea Turtle Restoration Project

In Java, Indonesia, sea turtle eggs were a popular delicacy.

Turtle is a town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States.

Conversely, developing countries would benefit most increasing sea turtle populations.

In fact, a number of communities in developing countries home to sea turtle nesting habitats have profited from successful efforts to conserve sea turtle populations through enhanced eco tourism.

Turtle Lake is a city in McLean County, North Dakota, United States.

And when you realize that the casque of the turtle looks like an urban tessitura, and can we imagine, if we cut the casque of the turtle, how sad she's going to be?

In Bali, turtle meat was a prominent feature at ceremonial and religious feasts.

Green turtles, loggerheads, and hawksbill turtle lay eggs on the beaches in summer.

These are the countries that stand to lose most from continued marine turtle decline.

Modern Logo has not changed too much from the basic concepts before the first turtle.

We can't see the corridors, and we can't see what it is that brings together a tuna, a leatherback and an albatross.

For example, the reduction in leatherback sea turtles, which feed almost exclusively on jellyfish due to longline fishing has paralleled extensive jellyfish blooms.

For instance, the idea of turtle graphics is also useful in Lindenmayer system for generating fractals.

Currently, there are 92 sea turtle nesting sites in 43 countries annually toured by 175,000 visitors.

The islands have a huge variety of wildlife, famously including flamingoes and four species of sea turtle.

The near total extinction from 1994 to 2002 created a collapse in sea turtle tourism and revenues.

Most threatened by industrial longline fishing are leatherback sea turtles which migrate thousands of miles across the Pacific to lay their eggs, feed and reproduce.

The bog turtle can be found from Vermont in the north, south to Georgia, and west to Ohio.

Writer Osha Gray Davidson relates that a number of island cultures trace their origins to the sea turtle.

The loggerhead sea turtle is found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea.

You boil the turtle meat, and then add a side of medler and figs, or prepare it as a soup.

It has traditionally been displayed either as a triangle or a turtle icon (though it can be represented by any icon).

It has been estimated that the cost of raising one leatherback to maturity at the nursery in Rantau Abang, Malaysia over the course of 10 years would be 72,632.

If you're very close to what happened, you actually do have to duck and cover, like Bert told you, Bert the Turtle.

I actually jumped in and photographed this, and with the fisherman's permission, I cut the turtle out, and it was able to swim free.

Noting with satisfaction also the recent adoption of regional sea turtle conservation instruments in the West African and Indian Ocean South East Asia regions,

Malaysia, one of the first countries to encourage sea turtle tourism in the 1960s, provides an example of how unrestricted fishing can impact tourism revenues.

The swordfish fishery was closed and the tuna fishery subject to time area closures due to high levels of sea turtle and sea bird bycatch.

The flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land

Because developing countries are home to the overwhelming majority of sea turtle populations, for example, these countries have the most to gain from protecting the species.

Working under the supervision of Seymour Papert, she developed a child friendly version of the educational robotics language LOGO, called TORTIS ( Toddler's Own Recursive Turtle Interpreter System ).

Hawaiian spiritual teachers relate the creation myth of the sea turtle as the benevolent character who inhabits the spiritual world and the physical world at the same time.

Troëng, S. and C. Drews, Money talks Economic aspects of marine turtle use and conservation, WWF International, 2004, pp. 7 and 49, found at http www.panda.org downloads species moneytalks.pdf.