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Turtle Tourism

Posted on 11. Sep, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Each summer under the cover of nightfall, more than 30,000 female green sea turtles crawl out of the ocean and drag their 200-kilogram bodies up the palm-lined beaches of northeast Costa Rica–often the same ones on which they were hatched—and scour out a pit in the sand. There, grunting and weeping, they lay 100 or [...]

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South of Everywhere

Posted on 10. Sep, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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When I was kid I didn’t know much, but I did know that Antarctica was one place that I definitely did not want to visit. I’d read about the horrors faced by the early 20th century explorers, and they scared me silly. British explorer Robert Scott and four of his comrades froze to death in [...]

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Driven to Destruction

Posted on 06. Sep, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Mike Vaughan and Jason Minvielle were in a remote section of eastern Turkey when they decided to stop for the night by the roadside. As they began erecting their tent, a tank and armoured personnel carrier pulled up. The tank aimed its cannon directly at the two Regina travellers. “Soldiers with machine guns jumped out [...]