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The Turtle Lady

As a result, the graceful Kemp s ridley, once the most endangered sea turtle in the world, is making a strong comeback—a testament to the fact that the measure of an eco baron is not a matter of wealth or fame, and that one committed person can have an outsize impact. [Pg.265]

Allen has been fascinated by turtles since age six, when she was growing up in Illinois and had a pet red-eared slider freshwater turtle she tried to cart around everywhere. Today her home north of Houston is something of a turtle shrine—with turtle statues, plush turtles, and turtle pictures. [Pg.266]

Allen pleaded for more time. You need to be more patient. They will come back, she predicted. So little was known about the migratory patterns and wild behavior of these turtles that they might yet surprise us, she said. And even if they don t return, we are still giving an endangered species a chance for survival, and giving children an unparalleled learning opportunity. Her pleas were politely, but firmly, rejected. [Pg.270]

Allen and HEART were among the first to publicly assert that voluntary programs would not save the turtles. She began lobbying her congressmen, the congressional committees overseeing endan- [Pg.272]

The shrimpers rallied around Tee John Mialjevich, a blustery, 300-pound, six-foot-four advocate of the shrimp industry from Louisiana, who vowed neither he nor his supporters would ever obey a government edict that required them to use the TED. We re not the culprits here, Mialjevich insisted, accusing Allen and other conservationists of a smear campaign. He said that in all his years of shrimping he had caught no more than six turtles, and that he had thrown them all back into the water alive. [Pg.273]


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