| Attitudes of Human Beings Toward Turtles
The attitudes of human beings toward turtles have been widely varied and inconsistent. People have studied turtles; kept them as pets; venerated them
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| Turtles and Folklore
The turtle has been a part of the cultural history of people in every part of the globe turtles live.
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| Turtles and Native Americans
Native Americans shared the reverence felt for the turtle by Asian cultures
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| Turtle Has Been Used by Humans for Food
The turtle has been used by humans for food, and archaeological excavations indicate that this has been true for at least 20,000 years
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| Excessive Egg-Collecting in the Amazon
In the mid-nineteenth century, a European explorer, Walter Henry Bates, spent
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| When Europeans Came to Central America
When Europeans came to Central America, they needed meat and were willing to pay the Miskito for it, first with goods
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| Killing of Turtles for Food by North Americans
The Mexican government took measures to protect the turtles from poachers
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| Commercial Sea Turtle Products
Worldwide trade in commercial sea turtle products has increased continuously
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| For Many Japanese, Turtles are a Symbol of Luck
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| Sad Fact of "Turtle Economics".
Mexico and Ecuador harvested some 150,000 olive ridleys in 1979, primarily
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| Turtles, Mostly Loggerheads, are Caught as "bycatch
Every year, 45,000 turtles, mostly loggerheads, are caught as "bycatch," along
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| Accidental Killing of an Endangered Species is Against the Law
Though even accidental killing of an endangered species is against the law,
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| Loggerhead Provides an Excellent Case in Point
The largest loggerhead nesting grounds in the western Atlantic
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| Pollution of Rivers, Streams, and Oceans
Pollution is an "invisible" threat in that it is pervasive, low-profile
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| Measures of Conservation and Protection
Measures of conservation and protection have taken basically two forms
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| United States Signed the Treaty
All seven species of marine turtles have been classed as Endangered
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| Carr Was Interested in Reptiles—Particularly Turtles
If a single person could be said to symbolize individuals and independent
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| Carr and His Associates
Carr and his associates attempted to re-establish breeding colonies of green turtles in places they once had been
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| Forty-Nine Men from the Same Warrior Society
Forty-nine men from the same warrior society, armed with stone-bladed axes and spears, set out on foot with their chief to hunt buffalo
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| Second Story about Jack Rudloe's Time of the Turtle
The second story comes from in Jack Rudloe's Time of the Turtle, describing an experience Rudloe had as a young man
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| When Turtles Disappear in Large Numbers
Any fragile, integrated system can only stand so much abuse before it breaks
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