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

Teachers help in turtle conservation Aware of the turtle conservation work by FOSTER (Friends Of Sea Turtles Education & Research) on Libaran island, a group of teachers from SMK Batu Sapi and SMK Ulu Sugut decided to get down to the ground and help out. They contacted FOSTER and booked themselves for a three-day two-night volunteer program and entered Libaran Island on a sunny morning

Truro scientist finds link between box turtles and power lines It’s not easy keeping up with box turtles. Dr. Ray Clarke, a scientist who spent three years tracking the land-roving reptiles through the woods of Truro and Wellfleet, learned that first-hand. His study focused on how the right-of-ways around the Outer Cape’s power lines might be affecting the breeding habits and survival of Eastern box