World Turtle News

Nottinghamshire is the UK’s tortoise-napping capital Nottinghamshire tortoise owners beware – you are more likely to have your precious pet stolen living in the county than anywhere else in Britain. There have been six tortoise thefts in the county since 2010, coming in joint first with Guildford, in Surrey, according to missing pet website Animal Search UK. And animal charities, reptile experts and the police […]

Bali police release into the wild 31 sea turtles who had been captured by a gang of poachers Bali police raided the home base of a group of wildife smugglers last week, reclaiming 31 sea turtles destined for the Asian markets in southern China. They are commonly used in tradtional Chinese medecine. The authorities, assisted by tourists as well as naturalists, released these endangered reptiles

Metal heads and body burdens: Lake Michigan turtles can’t get the lead out You likely won’t find any painted and snapping turtles headbanging to Metallica in Lake Michigan wetlands. But heavy metal runs in their veins. These turtles accumulate heavy metals in their tissues, according to a recent study in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Some of those metals come from local industries. “There’s reason to

Bill passed to officially ban Diamondback Terrapin harvesting in New Jersey New Jersey’s native Diamondback Terrapins may soon become illegal to capture after a bill was unanimously passed in the Assembly. If the bill is passed, the species will be classified as a nongame indiginous species. One of the greatest threats to Diamondback Terrapins include harvesting for the Asian markets as well as road mortalities.

Spotting beautiful spotted turtles on the Ga. coast Southeastern Georgia is renowned for its impressive diversity of native turtles —from venerable landlubbers like box turtles and gopher tortoises to our varied freshwater types like stinkpots and snappers, softshells and cooters, a large number of different species inhabit our area. Hands-down one of the most beautiful and engagingly-patterned species in Georgia is the aptly named spotted

Alligator snapping turtle making a comeback thanks to Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery Spanning 235 acres next to Pennington Creek, the TNFH stands as the largest federal hatchery in the southwest region of the U.S., and the largest warm-water hatchery in the country. It features three fish-holding houses, four circular tanks, and six large concrete raceways. But underneath the surface of a select few of its

Massive Confiscation of Products Made From Sea Turtle Carapaces in Java Java police conficated a large amount of products made from turtle carapaces in Ciliacap, Java on April 1. The suspect is known as a vendor of animal parts and police are still attempting to track down the supplier of these products. Among the items confiscated were eight Hawksbill Sea Turtle carapaces and several other

Turtle With Deformed Shell Has Very Important Doctor Visit Through radiographs, they discovered the poor guy had a collapsed lung that could be related to his old shell injury. What exactly happened to this snapping turtle and his shell will likely remain a mystery. But one thing’s for sure: He’s been in the right hands. Click the link to find out how he’s doing… Want

Attempted Tortoise Smuggling at an Airport Sixty Leopard Tortoises were discovered packed into small boxes at Schiphol over the weekend. The Dutch Food Safety authority reported that they could not move around at all inside the boxes. These tortoises, on their way to Hong Kong, did not have valid CITES papers. Turtle News From Around the World Conservation Sea Turtles released at Laguna Phuket An