Providing Safekeeping For Southeast Asia's Vanishing Turtles

National Wildlife, Oct-Nov, 2000 by Ted Williams

Despite the enormous task confronting her, Barbara Bonner stays upbeat by healing and breeding the few turtles that find their way to her clinic. "We can't let these beautiful creatures flicker out," she says. "Turtles predate the dinosaurs; they've been on Earth for 230 million years. I don't want to live in a world without them."

Ted Williams shares an obsession with fishing and bird hunting, but definitely not baseball, with the "real" (or, as he much prefers, "elder") Ted Williams. In April 1997 Ted the younger received the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Achievement Award for his writings on wildlife conservation.