World Turtle News

Sea Shepherd crew attacked by turtle poacher At approximately 3am while conducting their nightly beach patrol, three volunteer crew members were attacked with a machete and knife by a turtle poacher. Ben Harris, Luke Paron, and Rebecca McManus sat perched at a vantage point along the beach looking for nesting Olive Ridley turtles, when a man walked towards them shining a bright torch light. The […]

Turtle whisperer protects endangered creatures The hawksbill sea turtle is an endangered sea turtle, but if the actions of Ovan Coombs, licensed game warden and water sports manager at Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios, are anything to go by, then the creatures are in safe hand. Since taking the job of water sports manager in 2016 at the hotel and having accepted an invitation to

Family Transforms City Home Into Nature Wonderland And Wildlife Haven Nestled in the center of busy and chaotic Brooklyn, New York, lies something that will make anyone’s jaw drop, yet who would know that this type of phenomenon is even possible in this huge metropolis? Gennaro Brooks-Church has defied the odds with his museum of a home. The founder of Eco Brooklyn Living Walls, he

Ultrasounds of sea turtles from Ningaloo Reef help to track where eggs are being laid The team were looking for turtles carrying egg follicles, which resembled golf balls on the ultrasound screen. “But what we’re looking for, instead of a baby, is essentially little round balls and so when we find those, they look like little ping-pong balls or golf balls, then we know we’ve

Cambodian ministry drafts directive to save Royal Turtles The Agriculture Ministry’s Fisheries Administration is drafting a directive to turn more sections of the Sre Ambel river system into conservation zones for Royal Turtles following successes reported by the Wildlife Conservation Society and administration monitoring teams in existing zones. The WCS reported last week that since their release in November, the monitoring teams found that all

Sanctuary Partners With Wildlife Hospital As Emergency Responders Along A Weather-Ravaged Coastline Cape Cod Bay may be a sea turtle haven during the summer months, but come winter, this supposed refuge can become a death trap. After eating their fill of crustaceans and other ocean life, the turtles must head south in search of warmer waters since their cold-blooded bodies cannot function in chilly temperatures.

Experiencing The Dedication And Hard Work Of Sea Turtle Conservation Efforts When Bret Stearns, the director of the natural resources department for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head in Aquinnah received a cell phone call last week, he wasted no time to spring into action. He immediately jumped into the car and drove to an area near Menemsha. The emergency was one of many situations

Social Behaviors In Newly-Hatched Tortoises We thought it would be very interesting to check whether social recognition is available to non-social species. Are non-social animals able to recognize familiar conspecifics at the onset of life, when they haven’t had repeated interactions with different conspecifics? Are social abilities spontaneously available also to non-social animals? The solution to address this issue (see Versace et al., 2018) was

Volunteers Keep Close Tabs To Ensure Disorientation Does Not Impede Successful Hatch Of Sea Turtle Nests Florida is just one of the sea turtle nesting hotspots along the North American coastline; however, despite providing the ideal conditions for females to deposit their eggs, development has contributed to a major problem for the thousands of hatchlings which attempt to make their way back to their ocean