World Turtle News

Sea Turtles Return to Versova Beach After Lawyer’s Massive Cleanup Efforts Just a few years ago, Mumbai’s Versova Beach practically doubled as a landfill. The plastic garbage and filth was piled literally feet high; photographs were taken of people standing knee-deep in garbage, rendering the beach effectively useless for the turtles and other sea-dwelling creatures that use beaches—crucial parts of their habitat. Indian lawyer and […]

High schoolers to study sea turtles in the Bahamas In an effort to help save the green sea turtle species from further decline, five Exeter-West Greenwich High School students will be heading to a research facility in the Bahamas next month to study and track the endangered animals. The study will take place on Eleuthera Island at a facility funded by EarthWatch, an international environmental

The Incredible Life of Silvia, Chelonia mydas After years of monitoring, scientists managed to confirm that this green turtle successfully managed to migrate from Peru to Galapagos to nest on the beaches of Santa Cruz Island. Silvia. That was the name that the Peruvian scientists from the Center for the Integral Conservation of Marine Ecosystems of the Eastern Pacific, Ecoceanic, gave to a green turtle

Yazidi refugees assist in turtle release from Dolphin Marine Conservation Park The Dolphin Marine Conservation Park has shared details of the release of five green sea turtles after months of rehabilitation from Coffs Harbour’s Arrawarra Headland last weekend. While the release of the turtles was an example of the valuable rehabilitation and conservation undertaken by the Dolphin Marine Conservation Park, the story of the volunteers

George Heinrich of The Big Turtle Year to discuss findings at Trout Lake Nature Center, FL The hunt ended Dec. 28, 2017, with the discovery of the Florida chicken turtle at Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve in Collier County. “In the end, only two species were not found: the Apalachicola alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys apalachicolae) and yellow mud turtle (Kinosternon flavescens),” Heinrich wrote in a blog

In Assam, turtles are breeding again — in temple ponds The caretaker of a 500-year-old temple in Assam is the man-on-the-ground at the state’s only turtle conservation project. In 1994, the residents of Hajo, a small town in middle Assam, remember congregating around a rickety old wheelbarrow. Later, as the cart moved around the town, so did the small procession — each person wanting to

Smuggler arrested in Papua with over 2,000 endangered turtles A man has been arrested for trying to smuggle 2,000 endangered pig-nosed turtles, police said, marking the latest wildlife-trafficking arrest as the Southeast Asian nation battles the vast trade. Authorities in Papua province said they seized 2,227 of the palm-sized turtles which were stuffed into boxes on a boat docked in the remote town of Agats.

Dr. Claire Lomas finds dream job at Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu in Maldives saving sea turtles Claire, who has been living and working in the Maldives for 18 months said that life in the tiny island nation is a world away from that in the UK. She has so far saved around 80 turtles and provides surgery to those who become seriously injured after being

Professor Nicole Valenzuela’s study of painted turtles raises concerns for temperature-determinate sex determinate species amidst climate change Valenzuela said loss of habitat and exploitation has already left many turtles vulnerable to extinction, and climate change only adds to the peril these species face. “The whole message here is the potential effects climate change can have on these species and the importance of our findings for