World Turtle News, 10/04/2015

Tortoises on TV

The“Rock the Park” TV show is showcasing the work of Associate Biology Professor John Enz and Marine Science sophomore Alexandria Gagne all about Gopher Tortoises. A women’s group is making purses from trash to help sea turtles, the go ahead at last for turtle fencing and more in the Conservation section. Meet the owner of the faster tortoise and the tortoise taxi service is going strong; in the Miscellany section.

Turtle News From Around the World

Conservation

National TV coverage given to research on threatened gopher tortoise

Women’s group protects turtles by turning trash into eco-purses

Tortoise plan moves at a snail’s pace

Rehabilitated turtle Penny gets a brand new start

Kingston set to move forward with turtle fences

Crime & Punishment

Poachers mar turtle nesting

Miscellany

Drusillas animals hitch a – slow – lift on a tortoise

I own the world’s fastest tortoise

Tortoise Surgery Cases

Did You Know…

The Testudo graeca (spur-thighed tortoise) 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), as well as in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, France and England

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