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WHOI scientists tracking leatherbacks capitalize on moment It was the best possible outcome for engineer Amy Kukulya and biologist Kara Dodge, the duo behind last year’s TurtleCam crowdfunding project. They were able to tag and track a leatherback turtle for four hours and capture huge amounts of data and video of the creature’s feeding habits and behavior. And best of all, the TurtleCam — a […]

Turtle Survival Alliance interview their Veterinary Care Manager Sheena Koeth is the Veterinary Care Manager for TSA, and has spent the last half of August in Madagascar, visiting and evaluating the TSA’s tortoise confiscation centers. Read about her experiences in this article. Article quote:- TSA and its facilities has been a true life saver for Malagasy tortoises. To visit these facilities and see the sheer

243 Kilograms of Turtles Destined to Vietnam Rescued It started from a chase in Kandal province and it resulted in the rescue of snakes and turtles. Although the number of snakes and turtles remains unknown, we know that there was 124 kg of snakes and 243 kg of turtles. The man stopped the car and left the scene, leaving behind him the animals. Mr. Dara,

It Takes One To Save One It takes one male to save a whole tortoise species! Diego, an endangered Chelonoidis hoodensis from Espanola Island, is over a hundred years old but is still very sexually active. He is the father of more than 800 offsprings, which highly contributed to save the species from extinction. He is the dominant male of the three assigned to repopulate

Conservation Efforts to Protect Endangered Turtles of Sulawesi Sulawesi, Indonesia, is home to many species found nowhere else on Earth. Although rich in biodiversity, Sulawesi has only two endemic turtles: the Endangered Forsten’s Tortoise and the Critically Endangered Sulawesi Forest Turtle. This project proposes to conduct surveys to determine current population sizes and distributions of these turtles, initiating a long-term project to support turtle conservation,

Great Barrier Reef Project Saves 60K Green Turtles A project to raise the height of a green turtle nesting area has helped save eggs and hatchlings. The project on Raine Island, north-west of Cairns, where 60,000 green turtles lay their eggs, marks a positive start for the five-year project and is hoped to expand on other sites. The Raine Island Recovery Project involved raising the

Baracktrema Obamai – A Newly Discovered Parasitic That Infects Turtles in Malaysia Baracktrema Obamai… it sounds familiar, right ? Yet, it is brand new ! It is a 2-inch parasitic flatworm that infects turtle’s blood in Malaysia. It was named after the current US President Barack Obama. But don’t get it wrong, the American Parasitologists likes to name new species after people that he has

Panda Are Doing Better, Turtles Are Not Earlier this week, Pandas officially got downgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable in the International Union for Conservation of nature (IUCN) red list. This is an extremely good news, but what about the other 5,100 Endangered species of animals ? Have we heard about the Nubian Flapshell Turtle going from Near Threatened to Critically Endangered this year ? How

Madagascar’s Sea Turtles Under Threat From Organized Poaching WCS Madagascar is concerned about the huge illegal hunting of sea turtles in the country which they believe is from an organized trafficking network. “The WCS team asserts that the recent spike in the exploitation of marine turtles is being driven by increasing demand for marine turtle meat and oil both on local markets and in Southeast