Peanut the Sea Turtle

Theme song for the 27th Sea Turtle Symposium as recorded by J Nichos, President-elect.

Hear from biologists and veterinarians while they inspect patients at a sea turtle rehabilitation center and prepare them for release.

Matthew Godfrey takes a trip to tag a juvenile green sea turtle named Peanut with the help of Christian Guerreri and Catherine McClellan.

Living on Earth's Cynthia Graber reports from Mexico, where one sea turtle researcher has been trying to navigate the difficult waters of conservation and its clash with local cultures. See a map of Max the sea turtle's track at http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?tag_id=21217. Originaly aired August 10, 2001.

Marine Turtle Research Group staff visited St. Mary's School, Virgin Gorda to give a presentation on "Marine Turtles in the BVI". The whole school composed and performed a song for the occassion. For more information visit http://www.seaturtle.org/mtrg/projects/anegada/outputs.shtml.

A sea turtle presentation by Lucy Hawkes of the Marine Turtle Research Group. Webcast on Darwin Centre Live by the London Natural History Museum. Originally recorded for World Turtle Day, 22 May 2005.

Satellite tagging and release of an adult female loggerhead sea turtle from Bald Head Island, North Carolina. Follow her movements at: http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/?tag_id=57668