Hicatee Conservation Initiative
To start the week off we would like to highlight the work of the Hicatee Conservation Initiative which is monitoring the Central American River Turtle in remote lagoons and rivers of Belize. They have also produced an education pack to teach children in Belize all about this critically endangered turtle. Check out their website in the Conservation Initiatives section.
After a quiet weekend the start of the week is packed full of stories. Just days after the launch of Operation Jairo the volunteers have already stopped poachers. Three Home’s Hingeback Tortoises, (Kinixys homeana) where hatched at Dalton State, See the Conservation section for those and more stories. A warning to tortoise and turtle owners to do your homework about the species before hibernating them! See the Ecology section. More diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) news in the Blog Section.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation Initiatives
Hicatee Conservation Initiative
Conservation
Sea Shepherd Volunteers Save Nesting Sea Turtle and Eggs from Poachers in Costa Rica.
Endangered turtles hatch at Dalton State.
Waif gopher tortoises are finding a new home.
Sea turtle preservation campaign launched in Prachuap Khiri Khan to honour HM the King.
Phuket lifegaurds save Olive Ridley from fishing net.
UP centre a home for rescued turtles.
Moreton Bay turtle deaths under spotlight.
Ecology
Tortoise survives by being put on a drip after being wrongly put in hibernation and starved for months.
Stories
Far-flung sea turtle nest on Hunting Island further proof that nature is more amazing than reality TV.
Blog News
First Over-Wintered Terrapin Hatchling Emerges @ Tabor’s Schaefer Lab Beach.
Did You Know…
The Central American river turtle (Dermatemys mawii). It is a relatively large species with historical records of 60Â cm (24Â in) and weights of 22Â kg (49Â lb) however more recent records have found few individuals over 14Â kg (31Â lb) in Mexico or 11Â kg (24Â lb) in Guatemala
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Photo from the Hicatee Conservation Initiative
