Blandingii turtles receive more support and youth campers spend their holidays helping baby turtle making their way to the sea. In the Health & Medical section we learn about a tortoise which was glued a lego wheel on its belly to be able to walk while in Florida the Fish and Wildlife officers are investigating a new case of someone sitting in the back of a sea turtle. In Trinidad, 4 Chinese men were arrested for transporting turtle eggs, see the Crime & Punishment section. In today’s Miscellaneous you will find more details about the Lions Club’s turtle race and the 26th annual “Turtle” independence day in which sea turtles are being released at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
If you are close to California City around October 17th and 18th, stop by the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area (DTRNA) to help with that ‘work party’.
Blandingii’s turtle is well supported by the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge and the Children’s Zoo
Meet Norbert and Purdue, two Aldabra tortoises who are respectively 62 and 52 years old, at the Fort Wayne Children’s zoo.
Youth campers spend the holiday patrolling the beach and saving turtle hatchlings.
Health and Medical
A lego wheelchair for that baby tortoise who suffers from a bone metabolism illness.
Crime and Punishment
Florida Fish and Wildlife officers are investigating a case after a photo of a woman sitting on the back of a sea turtle was published on social medias.
4 Chinese men were arrested and fined for harvesting turtle eggs in Trinidad.
Miscellaneous
Celebrate the 26th annual ‘turtle’ independence day at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel.
A sulcata tortoise got rescued after burying himself close to an active power line.
Panama City’s Lions club will hold its biggest annual fundraiser : its 53rd turtle race.
Did You Know…
The aldabra tortoise went through a huge decline during the nineteenth century, without a huge conservation effort this species would probably be extinct today. Recent accounts about Aldabra Island recorded an astonishing number of about 100,000 tortoises today.
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Photo from Jess Schrier
