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

One such story I did documented the leatherback sea turtle.

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 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.

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.

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.

Similarly, revenues were 2,113,176 at Leatherbacks National Park in 2001 2002.

If Malaysia had prevented the decline in the leatherback nesting population from the over harvesting of eggs, it is estimated that gross revenue from tourism could have been 14 times its current amount, equivalent to 7,031,335 in 2002.

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.

Turtle.

Leather and leather products

For example, there are some tortoises called Blanding's turtles.

Giant tortoises

So do sea turtles.

Turtle soup.

My leather Adidas baseball cap matches my fake Gucci backpack.

You'll give him this briefcase.

Back to back.

Turtle soup, yes.

Production of footwear and leather accessories 40.9

Turtles don't have teeth.

Turtles don't have teeth.

Have you any turtle soup?

The worst!

It was those brown leather shoes.

Leather's hard to get. All right.

Yes, well, I use it instead of a briefcase, you see.

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.

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

So, before I became a dermatologist,

And this is ongoing work, but dermatologists

My feet are covered with boils and sores.

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

On the top, the turtles are just enjoying freedom.

Isla de Galapagos islands of the tortoises

And here, the tortoises look very different

Noon

Noon

The only piece of leather goods in the place was my nurse's handbag.

Even that alligator handbag his wife left on the bedpost. He had it hidden in the dresser.

I folded the cloth in quarters, the borders inside, to avoid fraying.

Must be German tourists. Short leather pants. Shut up!

On nesting beaches, they entangle young ones (Ross, 1987).

Saving Sea Turtles, Making Money

On some islands tortoises were completely wiped out