All Turtles are go The title photo is from Gerry Kehoe who describes the local flora and fauna that is now emerging at his local Horn pond. These lovely specimens are definitely enjoying the sun, although I’m not sure if his wood turtle identification is correct, can any body confirm? His article can be found in the ecology section. In fact over the past couple […]
World Turtle News 05/05/2015 Read More »
Education, Education, Education In contrast to last weekends news articles which featured heavily about poaching, this weekend we have stories about education. As tortoise and turtles become more active in the North America so do the education talks and walks. So if you have one nearby why not pop along. In other news we have an update on the Bellinger River turtles, firefighters wrangling a
World Turtle News, 05/03/2015 Read More »
Turn Those Lights Off! It’s Turtle Nesting Season! From May 1st to October 31st, it’s turtle nesting season in Florida. Therefore, all lights visible from the beaches must be turned off from 9pm to 5am. As you may know, artificial lights have a significant negative impact on hatching turtles; they lure them inland instead of seaward. As a result, may hatchlings get lost and end
World Turtle News, 05/01/2015 Read More »
Louisiana works to protect sea turtles Following up from a our previous report, the bill in Louisiana to repeal the state turtle-excluder device enforcement prohibition passed through the state House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment yesterday (Wednesday, April 29). This bill still has a few steps to go, but its passing would bean Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents would be able to
World Turtle News, 04/30/2015 Read More »
Impressive Shell Repair An injured box turtle had its shell amazingly repaired after being hit by a car in Tampa. The turtle’s shell was seriously damaged and it was fixed at the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center. A volunteer veterinarian and her team took care of the injury at the Island Animal Clinic. The turtle will be kept at the clinic for a while so
World Turtle News, 04/29/2015 Read More »
A tortoise with wheels! ‎ Mrs T is now sporting a huge pair of front wheels to aid her perambulation around the garden. The wheels, fitted after her front legs where amputated due to rat damage when in hibernation. From my travels around the web I have seen various attachments to aid tortoise moment, wheels the most common form. Sea Turtles have also benefited from
World Turtle News, 04/28/2015 Read More »
Arrests and releases This weekend has seen a number of articles related to turtle and tortoise poaching. From people selling tortoise meat from a hotel and the usual smuggling of animals through airports. At least people are being arrested and the animals released back into the wild. There is even a mention of increasing the fines to act as more of a deterrent to smugglers.
World Turtle News, 04/26/2015 Read More »
Tiny Tortoise May Redirect Business The small and endangered Gopherus polyphemus (Gopher Tortoise) could lead toward Volvo picking South Carolina instead of Georgia for its new United States manufacturing plant. While the Georgia populations of the Gopher Tortoise are not yet listed on USFWS’ endangered species list, they are native inhabitants of the plot of land considered in Georgia. Not only would a relocation program
World Turtle News, 04/25/2015 Read More »
Operation Jairo Starts The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will start Operation Jairo, a sea turtle defense campaign, this summer in three critical regions to nesting turtles and hatchlings. These three location include Florida, Costa Rica and Honduras. The goal of this operation is to save as many hatchlings as possible to give these species a better future. We should not forget that 6 out of
World Turtle News, 04/24/2015 Read More »
