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

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