Great 60 minutes piece on Eric Good
New York restaurateur who is doing what he can for Madagascar’s incredible tortoises which are being decimated by the Asian collector and culinary/medicine markets.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50136710n
The Oil and the Turtles
Every year, Rancho Nuevo, 900 miles southwest of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, sees a spectacular phenomenon: the arribada—mass nesting—of the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which has already neared extinction. This year, thousands of baby ridleys swam off toward a deadly new enemy.
By Alex Shoumatoff, Photograph by Gary Braasch
Ridley-turtle hatchlings head into the Gulf in Tamaulipas, …Read More