World Turtle News

Teenagers Rescue Sea Turtle in a Heroic Act Aaron Titshaw and Will Mercer, just a couple of teenagers enjoying another sunny day on the waters near Carrabelle, Florida. What would happen to them next is something they would never expect on such an ordinary day. Little did they know, a sea turtle just yards away was on its way to a slow and painful death; […]

Tangled Dermochelys coriacear spotted off west Cornwall Coast, UK A leatherback turtle has been spotted off the Cornish coast. A crew from the Mermaid Pleasure Trips found it caught on a pot-line buoy near Porthcurno. They were heading back from the Minack Theatre at the end of the 5pm cruise on Sunday, when they saw what appeared to be something tangled with one of the

Texas’ official sea turtle far below historical numbers The nesting season for the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is ending with zero nests found on either Galveston Island or the Bolivar Peninsula for the first time in at least a decade, although the number rose for the entire coast. The decline in nesting on the Upper Texas Gulf Coast comes as a recent study shows

New Study on Sea Turtle Microbiomes Sparks Interest Sea turtles are highly sensitive to the enviroment, which causes frequent fatalities when their habitat is disturbed. A new study is set to begin which will compare microbiomes between captive and wild populations of sea turtles. Headed by Professor Aubrey Tauer of City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College, the research will involve perfecting storage methods

Disheartening News Surrounds the Seychelles Friday marked a distressing event for the island of Curieuse in the Seychelles. Twenty-five hatchling giant tortoises from Curieuse were discovered to have been stolen from the island. This is disheartening news indeed, as there were orginally 28 hatchlings that were being kept in pens near the houses of the rangers. Allen Cedras, an officer of the Seychelles National Park

Glyptemys insculpta researchers step in to help NORTH OF DULUTH — About 200 yards off a railroad grade, researcher Maddy Cochrane waved her antenna in a semicircle to hear the strongest beep on her VHF radio receiver, then bolted off in that direction. The forest was thick with underbrush, big aspen trees and mosquitoes, and followers had to walk fast to keep up. It didn’t

Dermatemys mawii turtles Added to Assurance Colony in Belize In a huge boost to the joint TSA/BFREE campaign to establish a viable captive bred assurance colony of the critically endangered Hicatee (Dermatemys mawii), 19 new adult females were added to the HCRC in June 2016. The original founder population consisted of 22 animals, all but three of which are either males or animals still too

Unexplained Sea Turtle Fatalities in Australia Sea Turtles have been successfully nesting on Raine Island near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for years; however, this is no longer the case. Recently the hatch rate of these turtles has dropped to below 30%, a shocking contrast to the island’s previous success. Researchers are searching to determine an answer to this mysterious issue. Initially, floodwaters were thought to

The Mistery Of Raine Island Might be Solved Raine Island is the largest and most important nesting site for green turtles in the world however the rate of successful hatches is less than 30%. They first believed it was due to seawater flooding the nests during high tides until the following year when the success hatch rate doubled. What changed during that year ? The