From poacher to conservationist
The top story in the Conservation section is about Tabu Khajare, a poacher in Tanzania who applied for a job as a conservationist and now looks after the turtles he once poached. Also a sea turtle release and article about the sea turtles on Chichijima. Plus others.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
‘I feel like their mother’: Adorable story of the ex-poacher who used to eat baby turtles now saves them on their first journey to the sea.
Entangled green turtle rescued, released in to sea off Chennai coast.
Quiet observation urged for sea turtle egg-laying.
‘Not on our watch’: Biologists protect sea turtle nest.
Cayman Turtle Farm operates at $7.5M loss.
Lost & Found
St Leonards family devastated after tortoise theft.
Did You Know…
The spur-thighed or Greek tortoise(Testudo graeca) tortoise’s habitat is North Africa, southern Europe, and southwest Asia. It is prevalent in the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus (from Russia Anapa to Abkhazia Sukhumi to the south).
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Photo from Dan Ashby In Tanzania For Mailonline
