World Turtle News

It Takes One To Save One It takes one male to save a whole tortoise species! Diego, an endangered Chelonoidis hoodensis from Espanola Island, is over a hundred years old but is still very sexually active. He is the father of more than 800 offsprings, which highly contributed to save the species from extinction. He is the dominant male of the three assigned to repopulate […]

Conservation Efforts to Protect Endangered Turtles of Sulawesi Sulawesi, Indonesia, is home to many species found nowhere else on Earth. Although rich in biodiversity, Sulawesi has only two endemic turtles: the Endangered Forsten’s Tortoise and the Critically Endangered Sulawesi Forest Turtle. This project proposes to conduct surveys to determine current population sizes and distributions of these turtles, initiating a long-term project to support turtle conservation,

Great Barrier Reef Project Saves 60K Green Turtles A project to raise the height of a green turtle nesting area has helped save eggs and hatchlings. The project on Raine Island, north-west of Cairns, where 60,000 green turtles lay their eggs, marks a positive start for the five-year project and is hoped to expand on other sites. The Raine Island Recovery Project involved raising the

Baracktrema Obamai – A Newly Discovered Parasitic That Infects Turtles in Malaysia Baracktrema Obamai… it sounds familiar, right ? Yet, it is brand new ! It is a 2-inch parasitic flatworm that infects turtle’s blood in Malaysia. It was named after the current US President Barack Obama. But don’t get it wrong, the American Parasitologists likes to name new species after people that he has

Panda Are Doing Better, Turtles Are Not Earlier this week, Pandas officially got downgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable in the International Union for Conservation of nature (IUCN) red list. This is an extremely good news, but what about the other 5,100 Endangered species of animals ? Have we heard about the Nubian Flapshell Turtle going from Near Threatened to Critically Endangered this year ? How

Madagascar’s Sea Turtles Under Threat From Organized Poaching WCS Madagascar is concerned about the huge illegal hunting of sea turtles in the country which they believe is from an organized trafficking network. “The WCS team asserts that the recent spike in the exploitation of marine turtles is being driven by increasing demand for marine turtle meat and oil both on local markets and in Southeast

Passionate Woman On Mission To Save Endangered Turtles in Papua New Guinea Turtles number is declining in Papua New Guinea mainly due to eggs consumption, habitat destruction and local commercial fishing activities. With no scientific background but a true passion and love for turtles, Ange Amon, an Australian woman, is dedicated to do something about this. She established a conservation program with her husband that

Kane County Department of Transportation to protect Emys blandingii When construction is taking place wildlife is being effected in some way. Read what the constructions crews at the Longmeadow Parkway Bridge Corridor are doing to protect wildlife. Quote: The Longmeadow Parkway Bridge Corridor construction crews will need to learn what a Blanding’s turtle looks like, how to protect it and what to do if one

Two entangled Dermochelys coriacea rescued at Cape cod bay Two leatherback sea turtles have been disentangled yesterday in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusets by the Marine Animal Entanglement Response team (MAER) at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS). Click the link to read more… SPCA rescue read-eared sliders and smuggler foiled again, see the Crime & Punishment section. Sea turtle tracking and beach clean ups