3,000 spiny softshell turtles to be released
The Upper Thames Conservation Authority (UTRCA) reports a record-breaking year as their Species at Risk Reptile Team prepares to release 3,000 spiny softshell turtles back into the Thames River. Scott Gillingwater, said the record number of hatchlings being released this year is a positive sign that work over the past two decades is beginning to pay dividends; see the Conservation section for the full report and other stories. One tortoise stolen and one found in the Lost and Found section. I would love that sculpture outside my house; in the Miscellany section.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
UTRCA Turtle Team has record-breaking year.
Crittercam Deployed In Old Lyme To Follow Snapping Turtle.
Tortoise On Feeding Tube After being diagnosed with Fatty Liver Syndrome (Video).
Tour boats still cautious around endangered turtles at Arizona Memorial.
Turtle rescued in polluted Manila Bay.
Out & About
Watch sea turtle hatchlings take their first steps into the sea.
Lost & Found
Turtle that went missing in Bay Village found after newsnet5.com post.
Have you seen Herby? Tortoise stolen in Sunderland, UK burglary.
Miscellany
Lawrenceville turtle sculpture a ‘loving tribute’.
Did You Know…
The spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera) is a species of softshell turtle, one of the largest freshwater turtle species in North America. With a wide range, extending throughout much of the United States, as well as north into the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and south into the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila and Chihuahua.
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