Teachers help in turtle conservation
Aware of the turtle conservation work by FOSTER (Friends Of Sea Turtles Education & Research) on Libaran island, a group of teachers from SMK Batu Sapi and SMK Ulu Sugut decided to get down to the ground and help out. They contacted FOSTER and booked themselves for a three-day two-night volunteer program and entered Libaran Island on a sunny morning of March 18 by taking a boat from the Sandakan Yacht Club. Click the link to find out what they did…
A complete 3d printed, hand painted shell for a tortoise, watch the video in the Health and Medical section. Who dropped of a tortoise at the zoo, 400 turtles rescued and who owns this tortoise? all in the Crime and Punishment section.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
2015 shows increase of 34 turtle nests on Ambergris Caye
Turtle hatchlings unveiled at SEA LIFE Mooloolaba
Crime & Punishment
The great Werribee Zoo tortoise riddle
Over 400 turtles rescued by Etah crime branch
Hunt on to find owner of ‘stolen’ Doncaster tortoise living 170 miles from home
Health & Medical
Tortoise gets hand-painted 3-D printed shell after surviving forest fire, video
Miscellany
World’s oldest animal aged 184 gets his best shell suit on for a VIP
Did You Know…
All the scutes have names. Carapace scutes are grouped into vertebrals, costals, marginals, nuchal and supracaudal. Plastron scutes are intergular, gular, humeral, pectoral, abdominal, femoral and anal.
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Photo from The Borneo Post.
