Education vital to turtle conservation efforts
MANY are still unaware of the importance of sea turtle conservation in Brunei said Liaw Lin Ji, the president of BruWILD (Biodiversity and Natural History Society). “If we want (to raise awareness) on why we need to step up conservation efforts, we have to make people understand what it is that they are conserving,” Lin Ji said during a BruWILD Saving Our Turtles Project outreach programme session at Meragang Marine Biodiversity Centre (MBC) yesterday. Lin Ji added that people are unlikely to help conserve something they lack knowledge in.
In other news; Mojave Maxine wakes up signaling spring is near, tortoise “getting it on” during a fashion show and lots more in today’s news.
Turtle News From Around the World
Biology
Tortoise sex interrupts fashion show
Blog
Lea from France…. the hatchling magnet!!
Episode 130, Zanzibar’s Nungwi Turtle Rescue
Conservation
One inch could save thousands of sea turtles
Iowa lawmakers seek to limit turtle harvests
Blanding’s turtle threatened, more being learned and confirmed
Greens urge forest dept to save aquatic life dying with Kalamba lake
Crime & Punishment
Profepa investigates Guerrero turtle deaths
Three Malaysia Airlines officials penalised for turtle smuggling
Health & Medical
Sully the Tortoise Successfully Undergoes Bladder Stone Removal Surgery
Miscellany
Mojave Maxine Makes Her Spring Debut
How I shot that photo: Photographing tiny turtles
Species Facts…
The Geoemydidae (formerly known as Bataguridae) are one of the largest and most diverse families[4] in the order Testudines (turtles), with about 70 species. The family includes the Eurasian pond and river turtles and Neotropical wood turtles.
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Photo from Rosera Mohd BRUNEI-MUARA.
