Indigenous Community Dedicated To Conserving Australia’s Hidden Sea Turtle Treasure Trove School holidays are a unique time of year for one community of Australian residents. Indigenous Gangalidda and Garawa families partner together to camp in a remote spot known as Gunnamulla beach. Their purpose? To monitor and record the nesting sea turtles, which frequent the deserted area each year. Using ancient as well as modern-day […]

Ontario Municipal Board rejects condos plan over concerns about impact on wetlands and Blanding’s turtles A developer’s plan to build condos along the northwest shore of Stoney Lake, on a piece of wetland-strewn land considered sacred by local First Nations, has been rejected by the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). It took about a year for the OMB to make its decision. The 19-day hearing drew

Tigabu Youth Club in Malaysia organizes first festival for marine turtles at Tun Mustapha Park, connects community Tigabu Island’s Youth Club organized a festival at Tun Mustapha Park (TMP) this month which celebrated turtle conservation, helping bring together an entire community that has a love for its marine inhabitants. The festival focused on conservation work by the Tigabu-Tambulian-Kukuban Island Complex which has helped raise awareness

University Student Fulfills Life-long Passion With The Bermuda Turtle Project Rescuing a tangled sea turtle was only part of the series of events that would lead Josh Stephens to a career with these amazing animals. After being invited multiple times to join the Bermuda Turtle Project by Jennifer Gray, director of the BTP, he finally accepted while simultaneously pursuing a degree at Plymouth University in

Bundaberg’s newest mural is ‘turtly’ awesome BUNDABERG has another impressive piece of street art, with a new Tim Phibs mural being completed at Hinkler Central, fittingly of a giant turtle. The enormous, environmentally themed piece was commissioned by Hinkler Central as part of the Crush Festival and to coincide with the arrival of the endangered loggerhead turtles for their annual nesting and hatching season at

Latest Illegal Wildlife Trade Analysis Reveals Shocking Statistics And Need For Immediate Action Asia and Africa are well known for their prominence in the illegal wildlife trade; however, the america’s are shoving their way into the spotlight. A shocking statistic from a recent report by the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre reveals that a yearly count of 300,000 Podocnemis unifilis are exported from the

Turtle sanctury to be created in Allahabad, India Amid uncertainty over the fate of existing turtle sanctuary in Varanasi, the government has given its go ahead for setting up a new centre to conserve this aquatic creature in Allahabad. Idea of this project – called ‘Developing River Biodiversity Park and Turtle Conservation Programme’ – along Ganga-Yamuna river system in Allahabad is to protect rich aquatic

New study: how the almost extinct Burmese star tortoise has gone from 175 to 14,000 in Myanmar Starting at a point where it took 1,000 man-hours to find one Geochelone elegans, times are truly changing for the highly sought-after reptile. In 2004, the Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division (NWCD) of the Myanmar Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Forestry, in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society

Biologists Head Survey And Tracking Project For Native Massachusetts Turtles The Sudbury Valley Trustees Memorial Forest Reservation is home to two reclusive turtle species, Glyptemys insculpta and Terrapene carolina carolina. Last month a group of dedicated biologists partnered in a survey and tracking project to learn more about these declining chelonians. The project involves attaching tracking devices to each turtle captured utilizing scent tracking as