In The News
A recent comment on CTURTLE got me thinking about how much more popular sea turtles have become with the general public and in the press. Then I realized that I can actually quantify it, at least somewhat.
SEATURTLE.ORG started aggregating sea turtle related news in 2001. This started out as manual searches, but now involves automated searching of the google news feed every hour. There is a reason for this automation. Before 2003 you could expect to find only a couple of stories a month about sea turtles. Today there are a dozen or more new news stories every day. So many that manually hunting them all down would be a near impossible task.
Obviously this incredible increase is not only because sea turtles have increased in popularity. A significant reason for this increase is that more news outlets add their content to the web with each passing day. This is a global phenomenon, one that allowed seaturtle.org to begin aggregating Spanish language sea turtle news stories last year. And more recently we have begun aggregating sea turtle news in Portugues and French as well.
It is also worth a mention that if you are interested in a more frequent and unfiltered picture of world sea turtle news you can subscribe to the seaturtle.org News Tracker.
We hope that you find this a useful resource. There is a lot going on in the world of sea turtles and this is a great way to stay up to date with the latest happenings. As always, we welcome your comments, questions or suggestions about this and other resources on seaturtle.org.
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Sea Turtle nests along Florida's West Coast in Sarasota County have had a dramatic decrease. I stayed in my motor home on the Gulf of Mexico for eight years off and on and was on the beach almost 24/7 while there.
so many things affect the nests.
Ants, Storms, Beach erosion,chairs and other beach items left out all night , too much light, people walking in the dark with flashlights, red tide and chemicals released into the water.
The beach along Turtle Beach on South Siesta Key was renourished this year, but the nest count is down.
Renourishment was also done on Venice Beach and other Sarasota areas.
From the time I first started camping there till eight months later, I learned a great deal about sea turtles due to increased educational material made available to the public over that period of time.
I try to educate people as I speak with them and also guide them to more information.
I had a CD released in September , 2007 called "Beach Access 1" which is twenty three original poems and sounds of the seashore.
The very first poem is called " Tumbling to the Edge" inspired by a Loggerhead that washed ashore and cound not be saved after being hit by a boat.
The next poem is called "A Vigil Kept" which is a tribute to the sea turtle volunteers.
After living in Florida for the past sixty plus years, I tried to tell the story of how our wonderful natural resources are dwindling away. Awareness and education seem to be the key.
Theresa Loder
Posted by: Theresa Loder | December 16, 2007 08:13 AM