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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Archie Fairly Carr, Jr. was an American herpetologist, ecologist, and conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida. In 1987 the Ecological Society of America awarded him the Eminent Ecologist Award. He brought attention to the world's declining sea turtle populations due to over-exploitation and habitat loss.
I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.
For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.
Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation
Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.