The Gladys Porter Zoo Receives Top Honors From The AZA
The Gladys Porter Zoo received top honors from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums for its Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Binational Conservation Program. The “North American Conservation Award” is given to organizations that showed tremendous efforts for habitat conservation and restoration and support of biodiversity in the wild. This year and through their Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Binational Conservation Program the award goes to the Gladys Porter Zoo.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
A rescued loggerhead sea turtle is being tracked since its release in August. The Loggerhead Marinelife Center hopes to gather as much information as possible from the tracker
High tides washed many turtle nests away along Volusia and Flagler beaches
It is not going so well for the Indian star tortoise at The Srikurmam temple with only 24 hatchlings this year. As a reminder, they had 55 hatchlings last year
Education
In Moncton a new initiative was taken to educate people about the wood turtle, Glyptemys insculpta. Please, do not take them home !
The third annual Turtle Ball honors Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his environmental activism
Health & Medical
A snapping turtle found with a screwdriver sticking out of its shell has been brought to the vet and is undergoing treatment. The turtle, despite the damages, is getting better.
Miscellaneous
Sulcata tortoises find new home in Greenfield High class
Twin Hermann’s tortoise were born in UK from the same egg
Did You Know…
Since the onset of this cooperative project, there have been more than 222,000 Kemp’s ridley registered nests and just over 12 million hatchlings released into the Gulf of Mexico
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