A Maternity Ward -- For Turtles:
With its white sand and clear, blue water, Trinidad's Matura Beach looks like a postcard. It's a far cry from its recent past, when leatherback sea turtle carcasses littered the ground and kept tourists away. Saddened and frustrated, Suzan Lakhan Baptiste launched a crusade to help end the slaughter of the gentle giants. Today, she and her group are succeeding: What was once a turtle graveyard is now a maternity ward -- one of the largest leatherback nesting colonies in the world. It hasn't been an easy fight for Baptiste or the turtles. For 100 million years, the creatures have traveled the world's oceans, outliving the dinosaurs. Over the last 30 years, they have become critically endangered worldwide because of fishing. [more]

Be The Change:
Read Albert Schweitzer's passage on "Reverence for Life". [more]

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On May 30, 2009 Veralynne writes:	Inspiring to be reminded of what can be accomplished when people work together in common cause. There are so many causes like Matura Beach we can tackle-and achieve success with if we only will.
On May 31, 2009 jasmi writes:	please stop sending this for me.     Thank you
On May 31, 2009 matthew nai writes:	we don't have to scream or shout at someone who want  the same thing as us
On May 31, 2009 Ganoba Date writes:	YES, EACH OONE OF US NEEDS TO KEEP THIS ABSOLUTE VALUE (REVERENCE FOR LIFE) IN FRONT OF US AT EVERY MOMENT. Let it not become a dogma. a practical solution has to be found each time this question is asked of us by life. DO I SUPPORT LIFE OR WITHDRAW LIFE SUPPORT?
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