Adopt Me! The Arizona Game and Fish Department held an adoption day on Saturday for their Gopher tortoises (Gopherus morafkai) . The event allowed pre-approved applicants to choose a tortoise to take home. Each adoptie was required to complete a check list and provide photographic evidence of the environment the tortoise would be living in. The AZGF webiste has all the information. Turtle News From […]
World Turtle News, 04/12/2015 Read More »
Western Pond Turtle Could Join The Endangered Species Act Protection The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Western Pond Turtle could join the Endangered Species Act protection next year. They need to conduct a one-year review prior to decide. This species faces a declination of 99% in some areas. This species needs protection more than ever. Even though it is listed as state
World Turtle News, 04/11/2015 Read More »
South Pacific’s Largest Hawksbill Turtle Rookery Recovering After 150 years of exploitation, the largest Hawksbill Sea Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) Rookery shows significant signs of recovery. This local population, studied for 22 years to date, shows a 200% increase from when the study started. Collaborative conservation efforts must continue, but the success at Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area is very encouraging for the long-term growth of
World Turtle News, 04/09/2015 Read More »
The time to protect Blanding’s Turtle habitat is now Blanding’s Turtle is a threatened species in Indiana, Illinois, Ontario, Quebec, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Michigan. The need to protect a critical habitat – that is a habitat used for reproduction, feeding and hibernation – is a key step to save this endangered species. GPS trackers have been used to better understand the species’
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Special People Save a Special Species From late November through December 2014, volunteers track down 1,238 sea turtles, stabilizing and triaging them and transporting then to aquariums for rehabilitation. The article describes the amazing event from several points of view, showing that people from all walks of life can help out. Heather MacKenzie ended up documenting the event and has a film entitled “Sea Rescue”
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Plastic is not food This juvenile sea turtle starved to death after filling its self up with indigestible plastic. This sad story reminds us all about the effect we are having on the planet. The following wikipedia page describes the Great Pacific garbage patch, these are huge concentrations of plastic particles suspended within the water column, creating a soup of indigestible particles. Unfortunately marine animals
World Turtle News, 04/05/2015 Read More »
Multiple paternity proven We’ve probably all wondered if turtles can have multiple paternity clutches like cats do, and now our questions have been answered. Work coming from the University of Western Australia by researcher Jamie Tedeschi shows that in at least one species, Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle), multiple paternity is common. However, during the research, she also found no males that mated with multiple
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The curious case of the rubber tortoise: Attack of MBD We’ve all heard about metabolic bone disease (MBD), but it really isn’t the most common health problem experienced in the hobby. Arguably, issues caused by parasites are much more common. However, that doesn’t change the fact that MBD really isn’t hard to prevent. One vet from the United Kingdom discusses the issues related to MBD
World Turtle News, 04/02/2015 Read More »
First Underwater GPS Monitoring of Sea Turtles 30 baby Natator depressus will be equipped with GPS devices in order to learn more about this species. Indeed, this species is the least known in terms of behaviour and habitat of all the sea turtles species. 30 baby turtles got collected just after birth and have been raised by hand for 2 months. They need to be
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