World Turtle News

Scientific trip teaches students to be travelers of the world Bollinger and Michael Marek, an advanced environmental science and chemistry teacher, chaperoned 18 students on a scientific research and immersion trip through Ecology Project International to the Galápagos. Bollinger’s group returned last week. Their work helped scientists in an ongoing research project in Galápagos National Park. A lot of the work centered on the giant […]

Peeking into Gopher Tortoise Burrows at Birdsong Walking among the grasses, flowers, and forbs growing in a longleaf pine forest, you’ll want to keep an eye out for gopher tortoise burrows. They’re just big enough for your foot to slide in and trip you. In the video, we visit a few burrows at Birdsong Nature Center in Grady County, Georgia. Our group of local families

First Protection for Endangered Hoge’s Side-necked Turtle Thanks to Rainforest Trust donors and other supporters, 236 acres of crucial rainforest and wetland habitat for Hoge’s Side-necked Turtle have been purchased in Brazil. Securing this land as a private reserve will help recover the Hoge’s Side-necked Turtle population and may be the best hope of saving it from extinction. On February 26, 2016, Rainforest Trust supported

Costa Rican men convicted for killing conservationist and raping volunteers A Costa Rican court has sentenced four men to decades in prison for the 2013 murder of an environmentalist and the rape of four western female volunteers who were with him. The judgment capped a nine-week retrial of seven men accused of killing Jairo Mora, a 26-year-old Costa Rican working to protect sea turtle nests

Baiting Project for Australia’s Fox Problem Australia is trying to trick its biggest cunning invasive species by filling fake turtle nest with quail eggs and turtle excrement to showing itself on camera. The project is to find how big the fox predation problem is. They want to use 1080 poison bait against foxes and they therefore need to know where to use it. Turtle News

World’s most endangered sea turtle species in even more trouble than we thought Newly examined video of Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, which are found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, shows that the species’ recovery from endangerment has stalled at less than one-tenth of historic nesting levels. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham came to that conclusion after being tasked with identifying the

Hoan Kiem turtle to be preserved by modern technology “Hanoi has decided to apply the plastination technique to preserve the Hoan Kiem turtle,” revealed Dr. Ha Dinh Duc, the most well-known expert about the legendary turtle in Vietnam. Duc said this modern method will keep the animals preserved for a long time. Accordingly, water and fat in the cells will be sucked out before experts

Tracking Poachers Using Fake Eggs Sea turtles eggs have been poached for hundreds of years but it is today a very critical situation given the status of sea turtles. Every year in Nicaragua and other countries its several hundred of eggs that disappear in the hand of poachers for the black market. To that extent, Paso Pacifico proposed to design fake eggs equipped with a

Misery Bay Blanding’s turtle researcher awaits final field results Misery Bay Blanding’s turtle researcher Donnell Gasbarrini says a conclusion has yet to be made in the cause of death of over 71 turtles in 2013, but the researcher says she will know more once further data is collected next month. “Things are starting to wrap up, I am aiming to have my final defence this