With Seattle Aquarium’s help, stranded sea turtle makes dramatic comeback
When Tucker the Turtle was found stranded and starving on an Oregon beach last December, the aquarium took him in. He’s making good progress and should be ready to return to the wild soon. Tucker the Turtle has had a tough time. Tucker was far from his warm home waters off the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Perhaps he was swept off course by December storms. Or maybe domoic acid from the toxic algae bloom that bedeviled West Coast waters even into the fall last year fouled his navigational senses. Whatever the cause, he was carried on ocean currents farther and farther north — and growing colder, and colder. He slowly became inert, unable to swim, his body nearly shut down. “Basically he turned into a piece of driftwood,” said Tim Kuniholm, spokesman for the Seattle Aquarium. Read more about his story, click the link.
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The British Chelonia group are hosting their spring simposium in Milton Keynes, UK on “Forty Years of Chelonian Care and Conservation”. Featuring topics such as; “Keeping Pace – Chelonian Care Past, Present and Future”; “The Hawksbill Turtle: Conservation Research”; “Kinixys, Kobe and Kenyans; Four Decades of Progress in East Africa”. For more info see BCG event
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Photo from Alan Berner/The Seattle Times.
