Meet the home-grown guardians of Odisha’s Olive Ridley turtles A new generation of locals in Rushikulya’s fishing villages of Purnabandha, Gokurkuda and Podampeta, who’ve grown up with messages of conservation, is taking charge of reptilian guest relations. They’re battling tradition, collaborating with experts, stretching budgets creatively and relying on good-old-fashioned grit so that Odisha, the world’s single most important breeding area for Olive Ridleys, can […]

Singapore Zoo Receives Two Aldabra Tortoises For Breeding Plan Two females Aldabra tortoises were given to the Singapore Zoo from Mauritius as a commemoration gift. The two tortoises are currently under quarantine at the zoo but they will join an existing herd of six tortoises in a month. Named Casela and Coco, these two females will be a great boost to their breeding programme. Turtle

National Geographic makes Atlanta turtle its cover model The Reimann’s snake-necked turtle is not a conventionally attractive creature — except, perhaps, to other snake-necked turtles — but Zoo Atlanta’s specimen is about to experience 15 minutes of fame. The turtle will be on the cover of National Geographic magazine next month as part of a multi-year project by photographer Joel Sartore. Sartore came to Zoo

[iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/H4533qZ6cGQ” align=”center” mode=”normal” autoplay=”no”] Rescuers Free 12 Illegally Trapped Turtles Wildlife SOS found more than 50 turtles entangled in a poacher’s net at the Keetham Lake in India. When officials from Wildlife SOS arrived, 42 turtles were already dead but they were able to release 12 of them. The four species identified were endangered species unfortunately. Turtle News From Around the World Conservation Baby

Rare baby turtles mysteriously dropped off at doorstep of conservation group HQ The four were placed in a bucket outside the door of an office that belongs to the Friends of Sea Turtles Education and Research (FOSTER) vice-president James Leong. “I think with recent activities carried out by FOSTER to create awareness of turtle conservation and protection, someone may have realised it was wrong to

Bob the turtle recovers after pooping out plastic balloons Bob, a green turtle is finally paddling its way to recovery almost one and half years after he was discovered injured on a beach in the De Hoop Nature Reserve, just outside of Cape Town in November 2014. The sub-adult green turtle was weak, dehydrated and had two fractures on his bottom shell when he was

Another Dead Turtle In Sabah Another sea turtle was found dead this morning in Sabah. The turtle was found at Gaya Island by the staff of the Gaya Island Resort turtle rescue centre. According to the marine biologist Scott Maybank there is no sign of external damage. This is the second sea turtle found dead, the first one was found on Tuesday at Sipitang. Turtle

Turtles born out of mass croc extinction Marine turtles, as we know them today, got an evolutionary leg-up (or flipper-up) when a huge number of ancient crocodile ancestors died out 145 million years ago, according to new research. A paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B uncovered a link between a mass extinction of crocodyliforms – the name given to crocodiles, alligators and