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Osha Gray Davidson is the author of The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South; The . The green sea turtle has survived for over a hundred million years, and it simply may not be around much longer.

Osha Gray Davidson is the author of The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South; The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef, and other books. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona. It has been overhunted, but as Davidson makes clear, overhunting is so cause-and-effect obvious that it is often blamed as the reason extinctions happen.

Sea turtles have thrived for more than 100 million years. Now their existence is threatened not only by human depredation but also by a virulent scourge of unknown origin. In the 1930s, marine biologists began to notice ugly growths on some aquarium turtle specimens. A sincere and thoughtful book will tell you of the problem, if you can stand to hear about it: Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean (PublicAffairs) by Osha Gray Davidson.

Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean (revised and updated, 2003). The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef (1998). The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South (paperback with a new introduction, 2007; chosen as Summer Reading for the Duke Incoming Class of '11 due to its connection with Durham, NC). Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control (revised and updated, 1998). Broken Heartland: The Rise of Americans' Rural Ghetto (revised and updated, 1996).

Not surprisingly it is a haven for sea turtles, especially the green sea turtle that the locals call honu. And the honu are dying.

Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. com User, March 4, 2004.

com User, March 4, 2004. I knew that sea turtles were endangered or threatened but never really investigated the reasons why. I found this book while perusing the book store and it caught my attention so I bought it and read it. The book is well written and speaks to a non-biologist audience. It simply tells of the authors investigations into the reasons that they think the sea turtles are dying off at an alarming rate.

This books tracks the efforts of science to keep turtles from extinction and investigates the general problem of emerging diseases in the marine environment. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging in the natural world

Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging in the natural world. Perhaps most important, sea turtles aren't the only marine creatures falling prey to deadly epidemics. Over the last few decades diseases have been burning through nearshore waters around the world with unprecedented lethality. What is happening to the sea turtle, and how can it be stopped?

Sadly, these creatures now have far more to contend with than the odd. hungry gull. Fire in the Turtle House tells of the greatest threat ever faced by.

FUR ZIS leetle wurn zere ees no ope, intoned Jacques Cousteau over an image. on the TV of a hatchling sea turtle forlornly flapping in a gull’s beak, Advertisement. providing my 1970s Sunday afternoon introduction to sea turtles and French. Sadly, these creatures now have far more to contend with than the odd. Fire in the Turtle House tells of the greatest threat ever faced b. ontinue reading. What is happening to the sea turtle, and how can it be stopped?

The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean. A lucid and disturbing report on grim happenings in the sea-turtle world-and by extension the oceans themselves-from Davidson (The Enchanted Braid, 1998, et.

The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean. by Osha Gray Davidson. of an emerging virus.