World Turtle News

University Student Fulfills Life-long Passion With The Bermuda Turtle Project Rescuing a tangled sea turtle was only part of the series of events that would lead Josh Stephens to a career with these amazing animals. After being invited multiple times to join the Bermuda Turtle Project by Jennifer Gray, director of the BTP, he finally accepted while simultaneously pursuing a degree at Plymouth University in […]

Bundaberg’s newest mural is ‘turtly’ awesome BUNDABERG has another impressive piece of street art, with a new Tim Phibs mural being completed at Hinkler Central, fittingly of a giant turtle. The enormous, environmentally themed piece was commissioned by Hinkler Central as part of the Crush Festival and to coincide with the arrival of the endangered loggerhead turtles for their annual nesting and hatching season at

Latest Illegal Wildlife Trade Analysis Reveals Shocking Statistics And Need For Immediate Action Asia and Africa are well known for their prominence in the illegal wildlife trade; however, the america’s are shoving their way into the spotlight. A shocking statistic from a recent report by the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre reveals that a yearly count of 300,000 Podocnemis unifilis are exported from the

Turtle sanctury to be created in Allahabad, India Amid uncertainty over the fate of existing turtle sanctuary in Varanasi, the government has given its go ahead for setting up a new centre to conserve this aquatic creature in Allahabad. Idea of this project – called ‘Developing River Biodiversity Park and Turtle Conservation Programme’ – along Ganga-Yamuna river system in Allahabad is to protect rich aquatic

New study: how the almost extinct Burmese star tortoise has gone from 175 to 14,000 in Myanmar Starting at a point where it took 1,000 man-hours to find one Geochelone elegans, times are truly changing for the highly sought-after reptile. In 2004, the Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division (NWCD) of the Myanmar Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Forestry, in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society

Biologists Head Survey And Tracking Project For Native Massachusetts Turtles The Sudbury Valley Trustees Memorial Forest Reservation is home to two reclusive turtle species, Glyptemys insculpta and Terrapene carolina carolina. Last month a group of dedicated biologists partnered in a survey and tracking project to learn more about these declining chelonians. The project involves attaching tracking devices to each turtle captured utilizing scent tracking as

Released sea turtle carries Tony Amos’s ashes out to sea A rescued green sea turtle named Picasso was released back into the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, carrying the ashes of a self-taught Texas oceanographer who founded the rehabilitation center that helped nurse it back to health. Hundreds of well-wishers surged forward to get better views during a sunset ceremony that effectively allowed Tony Amos,

Gopherus polyphemus Head-starting Project Moves Forward Through Collaborative Partnerships The Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve is home to the fascinating Gopherus polyphemus, which is also the subject of an interesting project headed by University of Georgia�s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL), The Longleaf Alliance, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Riverbanks Zoo & Garden. Gopherus polyphemus possesses endangered status in

Would-be thieves prevented from stealing ATVs from nonprofit Florida Leatherbacks As if it’s not difficult enough to run a nonprofit, two ATVs were almost stolen in Palm Beach after the culprit(s) failed to hot-wire one of them, attempting to hide them nearby and come back later. After they sent out a message on social media, a neighbor nearby then spotted the vehicles and was able