{"id":2106,"date":"2012-06-27T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2012\/06\/one-turtle-saved\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T21:10:58","slug":"one-turtle-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/one-turtle-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"One Turtle Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen years ago the hawksbill sea turtle in my hands would have been hog-tied, whisked hundreds of miles, slaughtered and carved into trinkets.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, it swims free.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On Baja\u2019s Pacific coast, an adult male hawksbill sea turtle found its way into a fisherman\u2019s net. In the past, for the fisherman anyway, such a thing would have been considered a stroke of good luck. The endless demand for turtle meat, eggs, skin and shell on the black market can provide a nice payday to anyone willing to endure the low-level risk of being caught.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hawksbill turtles, once common, are now the rarest of the rare due to decades of being hunted for their beautiful shells, which get carved into combs, broaches, and other adornments.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These days, however, a Mexican grassroots conservation movement called\u00a0GrupoTortuguero<\/span><\/a>.org has challenged the old ways and shaken things up a bit. A network of thousands of fishermen, women and children count themselves among its ranks.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among the fishermen working to save turtles, is Julio Solis, featured in this short film.<\/p>\n

Julio Solis, A MoveShake Story<\/a> from RED REEL<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wallace J. Nichols, Brad Nahill, and the team at SEE Turtles and SEEtheWILD chronicle efforts to save endangered sea turtles in the inaugural issue of WildHope<\/i>, their new online magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fifteen years ago the hawksbill sea turtle in my hands would have been hog-tied, whisked hundreds of miles, slaughtered and carved into trinkets. Now, it swims free. On Baja\u2019s Pacific coast, an adult male hawksbill sea turtle found its way into a fisherman\u2019s net. In the past, for the fisherman anyway, such a thing would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife-conservation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6610,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/6610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}