TSA: New Tortoise Conservation Center in Southern Madagascar
Today’s lead article is about the TSA and Hogle Zoo creating the Tortoise Conservation Centre in response to higher confiscations of tortoise.
From the article,
“Recognizing the need for a central facility that can adequately house the steady stream of confiscated tortoises while providing veterinary care, research opportunities, and reintroduction planning, the TSA/Hogle Zoo partnership begin planning a base from which to coordinate tortoise conservation activities in the south, and the concept for the Tortoise Conservation Center (TCC) was born.”
Click the link to read more about this initiative…
Plus lost tortoises return home in the Miscellany section. Sniffer dogs, returned and rescued sea turtles and grants all in the Conservation section.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
TSA: Rafetus Swinhoei Update
$41k grant to protect endangered turtle population
Sniffer dogs part of $1 million solution to save Myuchelys bellii (Bell’s turtle)
Rehabbed Lepidochelys kempii return to sea at Folly Beach
Local teens rescue sea turtle
Blog
N.E.S.T Adopt a nest
N.E.S.T nest 36 found at Nags head
Ecology
Iowa seeks to save turtles, but trappers fear cultural loss
Health & Medical
Stand-up Paddleboarder Rescues Endangered Sea Turtle
With a little creativity one woman was determined to save this turtle
Rehabbed Chelonia mydas released in Florida Keys with SAT tracker to join Tour de Turtles race
Miscellany
In this showdown, the snapping turtle kept its cool
After 4 days, this 25-year-old Tortoise came back
Joy as Stapenhill the tortoise, aged 70, returns home
Who’s Who…
Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (1756 – 1825) was a French naturalist. He is known for his contribution to the Comte de Buffon’s great work, the Histoire Naturelle. He was elected a member of the Institute of France in 1796, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1806 and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1812. A species of gecko endemic to Mauritius, Phelsuma cepediana, is named in his honor. He described the Pelomedusa subrufa (African helmeted turtle).
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Photo from Turtle Survival Alliance.
