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Tourism can worsen deadly light pollution in sea turtle habitats The harmful relationship between sea turtles and light pollution has emerged as an important consideration in sea turtle conservation. What is less known is the relationship between sea turtles and the tourists who visit them, and subsequently encourage increased development along pristine shorelines. Light is an important navigation tool for sea turtles. But human interference […]

How the Gulf of Maine appears to be increasing the numbers of cold-stunning in NE America “We were surprised the results suggested this increase was linked with warmer sea surface temperatures,” Griffin says. The scientists originally thought the strandings might be associated with how many young sea turtles hatched. But turtles, it turns out, are just one of many Gulf of Maine species “exhibiting a

Meet Cloud, the very unique green sea turtle with leucism who was rehabbed and released by the Olive Ridley Project Cloud belongs to the green sea turtle species. She was rescued from the ocean in Male atoll, near the capital island of Maldives. She was found floating in the ocean and unable to dive down. Her rescuers tried to release her on two occasions, but

Sea Turtles Return to Versova Beach After Lawyer’s Massive Cleanup Efforts Just a few years ago, Mumbai’s Versova Beach practically doubled as a landfill. The plastic garbage and filth was piled literally feet high; photographs were taken of people standing knee-deep in garbage, rendering the beach effectively useless for the turtles and other sea-dwelling creatures that use beaches—crucial parts of their habitat. Indian lawyer and

High schoolers to study sea turtles in the Bahamas In an effort to help save the green sea turtle species from further decline, five Exeter-West Greenwich High School students will be heading to a research facility in the Bahamas next month to study and track the endangered animals. The study will take place on Eleuthera Island at a facility funded by EarthWatch, an international environmental

The Incredible Life of Silvia, Chelonia mydas After years of monitoring, scientists managed to confirm that this green turtle successfully managed to migrate from Peru to Galapagos to nest on the beaches of Santa Cruz Island. Silvia. That was the name that the Peruvian scientists from the Center for the Integral Conservation of Marine Ecosystems of the Eastern Pacific, Ecoceanic, gave to a green turtle

Yazidi refugees assist in turtle release from Dolphin Marine Conservation Park The Dolphin Marine Conservation Park has shared details of the release of five green sea turtles after months of rehabilitation from Coffs Harbour’s Arrawarra Headland last weekend. While the release of the turtles was an example of the valuable rehabilitation and conservation undertaken by the Dolphin Marine Conservation Park, the story of the volunteers

George Heinrich of The Big Turtle Year to discuss findings at Trout Lake Nature Center, FL The hunt ended Dec. 28, 2017, with the discovery of the Florida chicken turtle at Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve in Collier County. “In the end, only two species were not found: the Apalachicola alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys apalachicolae) and yellow mud turtle (Kinosternon flavescens),” Heinrich wrote in a blog

In Assam, turtles are breeding again — in temple ponds The caretaker of a 500-year-old temple in Assam is the man-on-the-ground at the state’s only turtle conservation project. In 1994, the residents of Hajo, a small town in middle Assam, remember congregating around a rickety old wheelbarrow. Later, as the cart moved around the town, so did the small procession — each person wanting to