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	Encyclopedia: Turtle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Turtles are reptiles of the order Chelonia, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from their ribs.
		Turtles have a gelatinous substance in their upper and lower shell, called calipash and calipee respectively, the calipash being of a dull greenish and the calipee of a light yellow color.
		Turtles are depicted in Western culture as, snapping turtles aside, easygoing and patient creatures.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Turtle (3801 words)

	Leatherback Sea Turtle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Atlantic Leatherback Turtles nest between February and July from Georgia in the United States to the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
		In the summer months, Atlantic Leatherback turtles are most common from the Gulf of Maine in the north to the coast of central Florida in the south.
		Adult Leatherback turtles are large animals that are not particularly vulnerable to natural predators.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Turtles/Leatherback-Sea-Turtle.html (993 words)

	World Wetlands Day 2004 -- Mexico
		Building, night illumination, waste disposal and the transit of 4x4 vehicles affect the quality of the beach as turtle nesting ground, while fish farming and agriculture are modifying the hydrological regime and causing pollution and sedimentation.
		Turtle nesting has been monitored and researched since 1975, and a management plan is pending official approval.
		The lack of strict protection of the beach area, and its frequent use by 4-wheel-drive vehicles, is also a major threat to the turtles populations as well as to the fragile vegetation of the beaches.
	www.ramsar.org /wwd/4/wwd2004_rpt_mexico1.htm (5629 words)

	Sea Turtle Conservation
		Asociacion ANAI each year conducts sea turtle conservation and research activities that like our Gandoca project, accepts volunteers for the leatherback and hawksbill nesting seasons which operate continuously from March to November each year.
		The illegal harvesting of eggs and sale of turtle products is very high, especially around the mouth of the Home Creek River, as much in the park as outside of it.
		The dynamic nature of the beach means that nests left natural are at significant risk of being washed away by the sea.
	www.anaicr.org /paginas/seaturtle/cahuita_project.html (252 words)

	Floridian: Bringing history home
		The boat passes a shell heap the river dwellers built, and tourists stare at the banks of the 6,000-year-old river that sustained them with fish and oysters.
		The little that is known about the river dwellers comes from what they left in the landscape, which bulges with bodies and buried possessions.
		The old civilizations relied on the river and gulf for oysters, but the people also fished for drum and hunted turtle, dolphin, bear, elk and deer.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/01/08/Floridian/Bringing_history_home.shtml (2379 words)

	- Park Profile - Biodiversity
		Mesoamerican river turtles (Dermatemys mawii) dwell in lakes, lagoons, and large rivers.
		There are no data for the rest of the area, but anecdotal information reveals that river turtles have dwindled in the last few years (Tut, J., 2004, pers.
		The basins of the Escondido and San Pedro Rivers, in the southern territory of Laguna del Tigre, are also potentially adequate habitats for both species.
	www.parkswatch.org /parkprofile.php?l=eng&country=gua&park=ltnp&page=bio (961 words)

	Southern Belize \| MEA - Mesoamerican Ecotourism Alliance
		Your route along the Rio Grande River is known for its howler monkeys and a large variety of bird species including Montezuma's Oripendulum.
		The town of Monkey River is the northernmost village in the Toledo District.
		If the Mesoamerican Ecotourism Alliance (MEA) cancels the tour or the tour must be postponed during a time period starting seven days before tour departure and /or through the duration of the tour, MEA will refund all money recoverable through our agents, not yet spent and/or all refundable deposits.
	www.travelwithmea.com /itin_belizeSo.htm (1809 words)

	The Annotated Ramsar List: Mexico
		Mangrove forests are found at the outlet of some rivers and associated with several coastal lagoons.
		Special research and educational efforts are devoted to the protection and conservation of marine turtles.
		Cattle and dogs on the beaches are a problem, as well as coconut and mango plantations and potential threats from plans for new tourism development and the dredging of the beach for a wharf.
	www.ramsar.org /profile/profiles_mexico.htm (9075 words)

	The Daily Glyph: Canter - Rivers Among the Ruins
		river or the sea, you might as well be on the face of the moon." It applies equally well to the 8th century.
		rivers were or were not navigable by the Maya in the past.
		The river swiftly encircles Yaxchilan with a watery moat, and
	www.gomaya.com /glyph/archives/000090.html (6824 words)

	Tierramérica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor: un estudio del CBM por Craig Metrick (en inglés)
		CARACAS - More than 15,000 young turtles, of the 'arrau' or South American river turtle (Podocnemis expansa) species, were released Apr 26 along the banks of the middle Orinoco River in Venezuela as part of a preservation program of the governmental wildlife service Profauna.
		Through the 14-year-old turtle program, 60 to 90 eggs produced by each of the 1,300 females counted annually are collected and incubated, and the offspring are reared in captivity for one year, until they are 10 to 12 cm long and less vulnerable to predators.
	www.tierramerica.net /centroamerica/ecobreves/0428eng.shtml (502 words)

	TURTLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Search the TURTLE Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the TURTLE Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named TURTLE at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/T/TURTLE.htm (73 words)

	Quirigua
		Quirigua is a medium sized site along the lower Montagua river, with the ceremonial center heart of the site about 1 km from the left bank of the river.
		The city's period of occupation seems to corrispond to the length of the Maya Classic period; the site being occupied by 200, construction on the acropolis begun about 550, a great boom of grander construction begining in the 700s with all construction evidently halting about 850.
		Probably the finest of these are Stela D from 766 and Zoomorph P (which explorer Maudslay nicknamed The Great Turtle), from 736, which are masterpieces of Mesoamerican art.
	www.fastload.org /qu/Quirigua.html (635 words)

	ANAI
		• The Talamanca Marine Turtle Conservation Program, started in 1992 in the community of Gandoca, protects one of the world’s main nesting beaches for the endangered leatherback turtle and has saved thousands of leatherback, green, and hawksbill turtle eggs from predation and poaching, bringing stability back to the local populations of these endangered animals.
		Sea turtle conservation has become the economic motor for this community, generating at least 7 times more income than was previously generated from the harvesting and selling of turtle eggs, through funded research and the provision of services to the project volunteers and ecotourists.
		Five ecotourism lodges are owned and managed by community organizations whose objectives include conservation, sustainable economic development, community development, and (in the case of the indigenous community groups) protection of cultural traditions.
	www.anaicr.org /paginas/anai/talamancainitiative.htm (1555 words)

	Dermatemydidae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		: The Mesoamerican River turtle is easily captured and serves as a local food item.
		: Sister taxon of the Kinosternidae (Mud Turtles and Musk Turtles).
		Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 577 pp.
	www.embl-heidelberg.de /~uetz/families/Dermatemydidae.html (283 words)

	Sep 1998D3;15= (No Responses);13= (1 Response);14= (% Responses)
		The San Lorenzo region is a biologically very rich area and constitutes an important link in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor in Panama, as well as constituting the northernmost section of the north-south biological corridor between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans on the west bank of the Panama Canal.
		This was adopted as a flagship initiative by CCAD (the Central America Commission for Environment and Development), a regional body composed of the Ministers of the Environment of Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico (the latter as an observer).
		The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor initiatives are loosely connected and coordinated projects in Central America, Belize, and Mexico that contribute to the common objective of conserving the biological corridor connecting the continental masses of North and South America.
	wbln0018.worldbank.org /MesoAm/UmbExtlib.nsf/8fdf89412e0ded0c852565a300685dbf/33af97b29d1aa48c852567e7005849f4?OpenDocument (3844 words)

	Hom-Tahs Maya trumpets of Bonampak
		Photo of the mural from Mesoamerican Photo Archives with permission by David R. Hixson (31).
		The previous examples shows that each acoustic parameter of the instruments, like the radiated acoustic power and the pitch, can provide signs to find their possible ancient use and range of the sounds in the reality.
		Dr. Tiesler commented that the paper is interesting and in the Mayan zone of the Usumacinta river the oblique head shaping is more notable.
	www.geocities.com /rvelaz.geo/bonampak/hom.htm (11716 words)

	Project Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The North Stann Creek River (NSCR) watershed is one that is being threatened by both agricultural effluent and sedimentation due to agricultural land developments.
		Over the past few years residents of Monkey River have become concerned about the protection of the natural resources in the area including the endangered fl howler monkey after which he village is named.
		The village of Monkey River lies on the southern coast of Belize and consists of about 30 families clustered on sandy beaches at the mouth of Monkey River.
	www.undp.org /sgp/cty/LATIN_AMERICA_CARIBBEAN/RBLAC/ov.htm (13404 words)

	Wisconsin's Woodland Culture, circa 500 BC - AD 500
		Marquette and Joliet crossed the state from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River in 1673.
		They frequently camped along the river valleys where they collected large numbers of freshwater mussels.
		The dense layers of these discarded shells mark their occupations and are one of the ways archeology knows where and how they lived.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/17281/106884 (599 words)

	Timeline Littles A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A region in Moldavia northeast of Romania and southwest of the Dniester River.
		Poland was partitioned along the rivers Narev, Vistula and San.
		The capital of the Kongo is Mbanza, built on a fertile plateau 100 miles east of the coast and 50 miles south of the Congo River in southwest Africa.
	www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/0littles1.HTML (12359 words)

	Biodiversity in Belize - Rapid Ecologial Assessment of Spanish Creek
		But the RDEDG has received funding from the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor Project (MBCP) and the the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT) to carry out a Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA).
		This REA is being carried out by Jan Meerman and his team and it is anticipated that this project (funded by the MBCP and PACT) can assist in the preparation of a management plan for this part of the Belize Biological Corridor.
		Morelet's Crocodiles also occur in the river but the endangered Hickatee or Central American River Turtle (Dermatemys mawii) appears to have become locally extinct.
	biological-diversity.info /Spanish_Creek.htm (427 words)

	Care Sheet Links Alphabetical by Common Name S-Z - TT - Turtle Forums
		There are a few things to do still, but mostly it is done.
		Tent Turtles I have found no links for this rare Indian Subcontinent turtle, but am told there are materials in the following books:
		Barbara Reader, friend to Timmy, the Turtle, a River Cooter, for 45 years, and counting...
	www.turtletimes.com /Forums/index.php?showtopic=22950 (308 words)

	The Daily Glyph: Watery Way Archives
		This is exaclty what we found by going down the river and mapping the rapids and determining their difficulty.
		as the river is unprotected it remains vulnerable.
		It seems to me that a pristine tropical white water river, a nation of 4,000 people with their own language and culture, the threat of species extirpations in a world heritage site, a revolution in the only monarchy in the hemisphere, and the smell of corruption comprise a muckraking journalist's dream.
	www.gomaya.com /glyph/archives/cat_watery_way.html (12473 words)

	Biological Conservation Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rodriguez, C.A., Flessa, K.W., and Dettman, D.L. Effects of upstream diversion of Colorado River water on the estuarine bivalve mollusc Mulinia coloradoensis.
		Smith, B.D., Ahmed, B., Ali, M.E., and Braulik, G. Status of the Ganges river dolphin or shushuk Platanista gangetica in Kaptai Lake and the southern rivers of Bangladesh.
		Valenzuela, N. Genetic differentiation among nesting beaches in the highly migratory giant river turtle (Podocnemis expansa) from Colombia.
	ravenel.si.edu /bcn/issue/197.cfm (4177 words)

	2000 Conservation, Food and Health Foundation Grants
		Santa Fe, NM $15,000 for the Sea Turtle Protection and Preservation Program in the Oaxaca coastal region of Mexico.
		New York, NY $12,360 for research, training and technical assistance that mitigates agricultural and conservation conflicts between a migratory bird and rice and sorghum farmers in Venezuela.
		Santa Ana, CA $15,000 to train 100 health promoters, midwives, and health workers in forty communities in Guatemala in strategies to improve nutrition, sanitation, women's health, income-generation and community participation.
	www.grantsmanagement.com /cfhgrants/cfhgrants00.html (1017 words)

	------======Quinto Sol - Adventure Tours======------ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We will then travel to Oaxaca, the colonial city which has been the birthplace and inspiration of famous artists such as Tamayo and Toledo.
		Other points of interest are Monte Albán, Mitla, Yagul and Zaachila which are of fundamental importance for understanding the richness of Mesoamerican cultures.
		We end tour in Huatulco where the sun, water, air and earth; relax the body and ensure that this will be an indelible experience.
	user.dcci.com /qntosol/www/dalidi.html (258 words)

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		The cross shape was said by the lecturer to symbolically represent, in Mesoamerica: a) a mouth b) a portal between worlds c) an owl d) the cosmos e) a turtle f) a drum g) a and b h) d and f (1 pt)
		Children are used as "mediators" or "go-betweens" in a number of Mesoamerican communities.
		Unlike other Mesoamericans Huave feel that the Sun is feminine and the Moon masculine.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/stross/ant322m_files/samplefinal05l.htm (2826 words)

	Honduras This Week Cultural (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		More recent studies in the Amazon basin and its tributaries have revealed that the cultivation of rain forest root crops dates back to at least 5,000 B.C. Honduras was the frontier between Mesoamerican corn, bean and squash growers like the Mayas and South American root crop growers.
		The turtle, although it walks slowly, always arrives; the cat, independent, and the hummingbird red and green, can fly high and understand the different movements in the atmosphere, ah!
		There are five male dancers, five female dancers, three drummers, a marraca player, and several youths who play the conch shell, turtle shell, and a wooden washboard.
	www.marrder.com /htw/mar98/cultural.htm (10411 words)

	Costa Rica tours, Lake Titikaka, Nazca Lines, Peru links
		Call and we can prepare a special quote for a trip to include your favorite activities or just a few extra days for relaxation and personal exploration.
		Options include river rafting excursions, horseback riding, mountain biking, trekking, turtle watching, water sports, exotic nature lodges and sportfishing.
		Explores (boat tour) this protected area, famous for its mangrove estuary, leatherback turtle nesting area, and unspoiled beaches.
	www.explorationsinc.com /goxploring.html (2809 words)

	National Parks of Costa Rica !
		Guanacaste: Protects more than 35,00 ha of dry, humid and very humid forests.
		It protects one of the few stands of Tropical Dry Forest in the Mesoamerican landscape.
		Tortuguero: Most important site in the Western Hemisphere for the nesting of the Green Sea Turtle (July - September).
	www.grupomawamba.com /costarica/national_parks.html (618 words)

	Latin America Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Explore how the Cofan, an indigenous community living near the Ecuadorian Amazon, uses the biological richness of the rainforest for medicine, food, construction, and handicrafts; talk about conservation projects to protect an endangered river turtle species; take a behind the scenes tour of the botany collections; program includes a slide show.
		An important part of Mesoamerican prehistory and artistic tradition, the Olmec heads are thought to represent powerful leaders of the Olmec culture, one of the first societies in the Americas to adopt a system of heriditary government.
		Journey through the most biologically diverse habitat in the world; learn how more than 250 species of animals adapt to the dramatic seasonal changes of the Amazon River.
	clas.uchicago.edu /publications/lac/dec.html (1387 words)

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