Books Archives - Sea Turtle Conservancy

On Kiki’s Reef

Dan Evans — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 11:25:51 +0000

By Carol L. Malnor, illustrated by Trina L. Hunner. A tiny baby sea turtle scrambles across the sandy beach and into the sea. Floating far out in the ocean, Kiki is becoming a gentle giant. She swims to shallower water where a rainbow of corals puts on a show. Kiki adopts the busy coral reef as her new home and discovers fish of all sizes and lots of surprises! There’s lots of teamwork going on too, including a gang of tangs that clean up the algae growing on her shell. But something calls her back to the beach . . . and the cycle of life continues. The book also offers a concise beginner’s guide to sea turtles and coral reefs, plus a variety of “teaching treasures” for further learning. David Godfrey, the Executive Director of Sea Turtle Conservancy, is quoted on the back cover.

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So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:40:07 +0000

Carr's work with sea turtles began in the 1940s. His many publications written for general readers, including his 1956 classic The Windward Road, alongside numerous articles for National Geographic and other publications, brought widespread attention to the plight of these animals. So Excellent a Fishe, first published in 1967, combined everything the careful researcher had learned in more than two decades of fieldwork. This groundbreaking book answered many then-unresolved questions about sea turtle behavior, including those about their remarkable migrations. In large part because of the endearing charm of Carr's narrative style, it remains a beloved and often-consulted volume in the field.

This new edition captures Carr's gentle humor, his passionate fascination with sea turtles, and his intense love of sharing his knowledge with readers. A foreword by Karen Bjorndal, director of the Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research, brings the story up to date even as it reveals how prescient Carr was more than 45 years ago.

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The Windward Road

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:40:05 +0000

In 1956, Dr. Archie Carr started the global movement to protect sea turtles with his book The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores. The book follows Dr. Carr on a fantastic journey through the Caribbean in search of green turtle nesting beaches. This book alerted the world to the decline of sea turtle populations and sparked an international interest in the conservation of sea turtles and led to the founding of the “Brotherhood of the Green Turtle,” today known as the nonprofit Sea Turtle Conservancy. The Windward Road also won several awards, including the John Burroughs Medal from the American Museum of Natural History. A revised edition of The Windward Road was published in March 2013. The new edition includes a foreword by David Godfrey, the Executive Director of Sea Turtle Conservancy.

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