South Pacific’s Largest Hawksbill Turtle Rookery Recovering After 150 years of exploitation, the largest Hawksbill Sea Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) Rookery shows significant signs of recovery. This local population, studied for 22 years to date, shows a 200% increase from when the study started. Collaborative conservation efforts must continue, but the success at Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area is very encouraging for the long-term growth of […]

The time to protect Blanding’s Turtle habitat is now Blanding’s Turtle is a threatened species in Indiana, Illinois, Ontario, Quebec, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Michigan. The need to protect a critical habitat – that is a habitat used for reproduction, feeding and hibernation – is a key step to save this endangered species. GPS trackers have been used to better understand the species’

Special People Save a Special Species From late November through December 2014, volunteers track down 1,238 sea turtles, stabilizing and triaging them and transporting then to aquariums for rehabilitation. The article describes the amazing event from several points of view, showing that people from all walks of life can help out. Heather MacKenzie ended up documenting the event and has a film entitled “Sea Rescue”

Plastic is not food This juvenile sea turtle starved to death after filling its self up with indigestible plastic. This sad story reminds us all about the effect we are having on the planet. The following wikipedia page describes the Great Pacific garbage patch, these are huge concentrations of plastic particles suspended within the water column, creating a soup of indigestible particles. Unfortunately marine animals

First Underwater GPS Monitoring of Sea Turtles 30 baby Natator depressus will be equipped with GPS devices in order to learn more about this species. Indeed, this species is the least known in terms of behaviour and habitat of all the sea turtles species. 30 baby turtles got collected just after birth and have been raised by hand for 2 months. They need to be

The disaster that keeps on giving The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill is again in the headlines in a report by the National Wildlife Federation released Monday, March 30th. BP released their five year findings on March 17th. With BP’s report being being marked as premature in its recovery findings and BP saying the National Wildlife Federation report is politically motivated, somewhere between the two