Wow! A rare 500lb leather back turtle is rescued.
A 226kg Leatherback sea turtle is rescued from Yawley-South Island Reserve beach by five people after being reported as sick. It is now at the South Carolina Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital where it is recovering. This a rare event and possibly only the fifth record in the United States of America.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
Wildlife officers find carcasses of 19 endangered green turtles in Pulau Tiga, northern Sabah.
Brunei has the potential to develop its own sea turtle sanctuary at Brunei Bay.
Sabah Wildlife Department’s Rescue Unit retrieved the carcass of a sea turtle.
Smells fishy: ‘Fisheries dept approved turtle consignment’
The Turtle Village Trust quest to save our sea turtles.
NPWS close parts of Bellinger River due to turtle mortality.
Did You Know…
In 1968 the Soviet Union launched the Zond 5 which contained as part of its biological payload two Russian tortoises. They circled the moon before returning safely to earth.
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Photo from Melissa Boughton of The Post and Courier
