Peace and quiet for nesting turtles
After the Ostional beach was swamped with selfie-taking tourists, two weeks later it’s a different story; sea turtle rescues up in 2015 for the Marine Science center and more in the Conservation section. The ocean is a cocktail of chemicals for sea turtles and where do turtles go in winter; see the Ecology section. Norbert from the Fort Wayne Zoo has a 53rd Birthday in the Miscellany section. And lots, lots more…
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
Costa Rica to Shield Sea Turtles.
Marine Science Center: Sea turtle rescues up in 2015.
New turtle and tortoise habitats at EAC’s Discovery Park Campus.
Women shell out kindness for turtles: Rescuers try to act fast to help slow-moving creatures stranded in road.
Ecology
Scientists find turtles on Great Barrier Reef are absorbing a cocktail of chemicals.
Where do the turtles go in the winter?.
Turtle Survial Alliance News
Brewing up Something Special for Turtles.
Studying the reproductive ecology of the Toad-headed Turtle.
Education
Looking for Pearls: Students get front row seat to Tybee turtle release.
Club learns how to save at risk turtles.
Miscellany
See Norbert the Tortoise Eat a Salad on His 53rd Birthday.
Did You Know…
The olive ridley nest in vast numbers of in what is known as an “arribada”. During these arribadas, hundreds to thousands of females come ashore to lay their eggs. At many nesting beaches, the nesting density is so high that previously laid egg clutches are dug up by other females excavating the nest to lay their own eggs.
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