Buy me a turtle, Mom, please buy me a turtle!

Please buy me a turtle, Mother, please buy me a turtle.

Davidson, Turtle culture , draft unpublished chapter, Fire in the Turtle House The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean, Public Affairs NY, 2001.

There was peanut loaf, liver loaf, bean loaf.

This was Bert the Turtle.

Inspect this turtle. 320. Generation 13.

Take a walk with a turtle.

If the empty spaces is less than the amount of spaces, the turtle needs to live, the turtle needs to die.

The best example of quality of life is the turtle because the turtle is an example of living and working together.

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

Look at this young bean that is moving to catch the light every time.

One such story I did documented the leatherback sea turtle.

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

You know how much coffee is worth, when treated as a commodity as a bean?

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.

I remember his son had the L.L. Bean bootlaces, and we're trying to do up his laces.

If you're sitting on any space with another turtle, then just die.

Or the bog turtle, needing wet meadows and insects and sunny places.

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?

OTTAWA In April 1999 Larry Proctor, a United States citizen and owner of a seed company, won a patent at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), claiming a Mexican yellow bean. The patent conferred Proctor exclusive rights over a bean variety he called Enola.

Reducing sea turtle mortality through reductions in longline bycatch would save money by reducing the need for costly, emergency sea turtle conservation efforts that are not calculated in the true costs of industrial fishing.

And then his sidekick is a sea turtle, as I mentioned before, named Filmore.

This is the largest, widest ranging, deepest diving and oldest of all turtle species.

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

Turtle is the foundation. Likewise, in Samoa the belief that the islands float upon the backs of giant sea turtles goes back many generations in China many place the entire universe on the back of the sea turtle, and the people of Tokelau and Bora Bora believe their peoples were carried to one another's island on the back of a sea turtle.

The bean for which Proctor was granted a patent is a farmers variety, originally from Mexico and in the public domain for centuries. The bean is consumed throughout Mexico and by Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the US who know it by the names Mayocoba, Canario, or Peruano.

We did this with the Great Turtle Race tagged turtles, brought in four million hits.

Current spending on sea turtle conservation efforts is estimated at U.S. 20 million per year.

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

Now, coumarin is a very common thing, a material, in fragrance which is derived from a bean that comes from South America.

And every now and then, find a friend, find a turtle, and take a long, slow walk.

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

If the turtle needs eight spaces to live, it is going to have to be very thinly populated.

I kind of give my turtle hands just to make them an easier cartoon character to work with.

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

I'll give you two examples, also from the garden lima beans. You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites?

In contrast to Costa Rica, which has made local conservation and international efforts at the 5th Informal Consultative Process of the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea in 2004 top priorities of sea turtle conservation, Malaysia has suffered heavy losses in sea turtle populations and tourism revenues.

I have added a slider here called space. We know that around every turtle there is a neighborhood of eight spaces,

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

Acaraje, a Brazilian food from Africa, is a ball of caupi bean dough, onions, and salt, fried in palm oil and served with shrimp and a spicy sauce.

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

Leatherback sea turtles get hooked on longlines and often drown before the line is reeled and the sea turtle can be released.

It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean.

Although the bean variety existed in publicly available seed collections, it took ten years, hundreds of thousands of dollars, massive protest by farmers and civil society, the intervention of international agencies, and five consecutive legal decisions before the USPTO finally annulled the patent in July 2009. By then, Proctor had exercised a complete monopoly over the production, distribution, and marketing of the bean for more than half of the patent s lifespan.

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