Durham surgeon stitches sea turtles back together Just as surgeon Mike Grafinger was putting in the final sutures, his patient started to wake up. “This, unfortunately, is the reality of sea turtle anesthesia,” N.C. Aquariums veterinarian Emily Christiansen said. After the turtle lost consciousness again, Grafinger finished repairing its lacerated flipper. He carefully threaded a metal wire back and forth between the torn pieces, suturing […]

Turtle’s conservation gets cracking after tagging turtle which laid 74 eggs A non-governmental organisation (NGO) has embarked on new milestone in conservation efforts by tagging their first turtle at Libaran island. Friends of Sea Turtles Education and Research (FOSTER) measured and tagged the 180-kg Green turtle after it laid 74 eggs on the beach… Also people rescuing sea turtles, an audio report on the Lake

Hanoi giant turtle remains in cold storage as preservation plans undecided One month on, the body remains in the cold storage room, with a temperature of 15 below zero degrees Celsius, as the Hanoi administration has yet to decide what should be done, according to the museum director. “It is not simple to mummify the turtle so intensive consideration is inevitable.” The Vietnam National Museum

3230 Pig-nosed Turtles Saved From Smugglers The Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry along with the Marine Resource and Fisheries Monitoring Post stopped a smuggling attempt of 3230 Carettochelys insculpta in Jakarta. The turtles were found in 190 plastic boxes in four luggages. The smugglers attempted to send the luggages through an old airport entrance that has no X-ray devices. Turtle News From Around the World

Hawksbill turtles find Seychelles safe to lay eggs during the day The Seychelles archipelago is one of two places in the world that hawksbill turtles find safe enough to lay eggs in broad daylight, says a local expert. Why do hawksbills feel safe to lay their eggs in Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean? One explanation given by Mortimer is

Conservationists in Chennai sight season’s first nesting turtle Sunday evening was a memorable time for a group of sea turtle conservationists in Chennai, as they sighted a nesting turtle on Neelankarai beach. This was the first ever sighting during the sea turtle nesting season this year, which begins in January and goes on till March end. TREE Foundation chairwoman Supraja Dharini said they received information

Another Wave Of Cold Stun Arrived A second wave of cold stun has arrived and has already made victims… read more in the Ecology and H&M section. Still in the Ecology section learn more about a herpes virus that is making its way on the way up to the east coast. In the Biology section have fun reading about some ancient animals caught permanently in