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St. Thomas the green sea turtle joins list of participants in Sea Turtle Conservancy’s Tour de Turtles to start 08/01 “St. Thomas,” a 35-pound male, and 15 other sea turtles are to participate in Tour de Turtles online educational competition that officially begins Aug. 1 and is organized by the Sea Turtle Conservancy. The unique “tour” follows the long-distance migration of different species of sea […]

Two-headed hatchling green sea turtle dies days after being found In Malaysia He said the cause of death was not yet known but added the turtle would have had little chance of surviving long in the wild. “It would have been poached by an eagle because it could not swim well,” he said. While rare, it was not the first time a two-headed baby turtle

Indonesian governor latest official busted for bribes in environmental case Jakarta – A governor (pictured above) from the island of Sumatra has been charged by Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency over allegations of bribery in connection to a land reclamation project. The governor, Nurdin Basirun, is the latest to be apprehended in this high-profile case. He was arrested on July 10th at his home after transacting a

New program, app released in CA, USA to help scientists and public help protect the western pond turtle Last month Tokatlian launched a new turtle-tracking project through the Midpen Biodiversity Index at the online app iNaturalist. The district is asking people to be on the lookout for the turtles. Through the app, people can upload pictures of the turtles they spot and include data such

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and its partners working to solve mystery of shell disease in western pond turtles For years, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and its partners have been reintroducing young western pond turtles into the wild. On Tuesday morning, experts collected adult turtles suffering from shell disease — a mysterious, difficult-to-cure and sometimes fatal disorder. Experts are in the

Gopher tortoises: Study to determine if diseases, dwindling habitat cause low productivity So, you may have seen some rather large and perhaps cumbersome gopher tortoises scuttling through parks, reserves and natural habitats. But how often do you cross smaller, younger gopher tortoises? Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Habour Branch Oceanographic Institute along with the Loggerhead Marinelife Centre at Juno Beach have been asking the same

Drifting ”ghost nets” menace to marine life off Goa Panaji, an area of Goa in India is facing a menacing threat in their oceans. That threat…Ghost nets! It appears that several species of marine fauna are affected the most which includes sea turtles. Ghost nets are fishing nets which have been discarded by fishermen at sea after they become damaged and are no longer useful

Loggerhead Marinelife Center estimates 25,000 nests on Jupiter beach in 2019 By the end of the season, the center has predicted 25,000 green, loggerhead and leatherback nests will have dotted the 9.5 miles of beach Loggerhead monitors. Currently, 11,487 nests dot the beach from the entrance of MacArthur Beach State Park to the Jupiter Inlet. “These nest numbers are not unexpected,” said Dr. Justin Perrault,

Reptile expert Joseph Mitchell killed after walking onto Florida roadway Mitchell, of Fort White, worked as a herpetology research associate at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. He also published or edited more than 500 papers on turtles, according to the Gainesville Sun. “He was well-known in conservation biology and turtle biology,” the museum’s courtesy assistant curator, Ken Dodd, told the newspaper. “He