Nesting Season Officially Starts on Sunday
It’s here ! The nesting season will officially starts on Sunday, May 1st. Will 2016 be as good as the previous four years ? Well we hope so. Since 2012, we have seen the number of females coming ashore increasing. But, this does not mean that 2016 will be as good. Four years is obviously not enough for a species to recover. Yet, we are very optimistic.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
Turtle coming ashore to nest
Crime & Punishment
Fishermen charged for allegedly catching three green sea turtles
Ecology
Sea turtles migration will be earlier this year in California
Health & Medical
Green sea turtle goes through surgery at Perth Zoo
Miscellany
Costa rica will welcome summer volunteer
Volunteers wanted to help repairing Margate causeway turtle barriers
Watch this beautiful leatherback sea turtle coming ashore
Species Facts…
Hermann’s tortoise (Testudo hermanni) they are sexually dimorphic chelonian, male T. h. hermanni have enormous long tails with a larger horny tip at the end. The plastron is also slightly concave may have a more trapezoidal shape. Females (the larger of the sexes) exhibit much shorter tails with a puckered vent and smaller tail spur and a flat or level plastron.
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