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Desert tortoise adoption successes The Tortoise Group, a Las Vegas-based nonprofit have an adoption program for desert tortoises. This story is about Shelly and her new custodian Heidi. Article quotes. “I never had one, but I always wanted one because they were, you know, fascinating to me,” Hill said. “She does like a figure 8 around my feet, and then she steps on my foot […]

Nesting Record-Breaking Season in Florida While last year’s total number of sea turtle nests was 2,802, this year’s total is 4,193. On a distance that spreads 35 miles at least one turtle egg has hatched on each Mote-monitored beach. To help with the hatchling disorientation problem, the Town of Longboat Key will reinforce its Marine Turtle Protection Ordinance to improve the management of artificial lighting

Couple Dedicated to Wildlife Restoration Billy and Marcia Boothe are heroes of ecosystem preservation, beginning with their purchase of 22 acres in in Gadsden and Liberty counties in the late 90’s. From the beginning their intent was to restore the native wildlife and conserve the natural resources of the raw, pristine habitat. In addition to working to restore the Longleaf Pine on the property, as

Virgin Islands National Park Sea Turtle Monitoring Program Not having monitored turtles since 2009 they now have a program up and running again. It is proving a challenging task but we hope it’s worth it. They have four species of sea turtle visiting; Eretmochelys imbricata, Chelonia mydas and occasionally the Dermochelys coriacea and Caretta caretta. Article quotes. Our biggest issues were: adequate response times to

Michele Lamping, Turtle Saver Michele is an aquarist at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores and leads an effort to find and protect sea turtle nests. Read about her and the team of volunteers that help sea turtles from the beaches of Currituck to Calabash. Article quotes: “Without our group, we have a whole bunch of turtles that wouldn’t exist,” she said. “Our

New Blanding’s turtles Site Discovered After decades of research, the Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute have found a fourth pocket of Blanding’s turtles in Nova Scotia. Before this discovery, only 3 populations of about 350 turtles were known. “We had a very credible sighting report and then we were able to follow up on that and found so many turtles – we have a lot of

Funding Provided to Assist in Sea Turtle Conservation Efforts Lepidochelys kempii, the Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, is the most endangered sea turtle on the face of the earth, with the IUCN listing it as critically endangered. Recently, $220,162 was gifted in the form of funding to Dr. Christopher Marshall, associate professor of marine biology on the Galveston campus, in order that he could continue tagging

Padre Island turtle patrol works to save rare Lepidochelys kempii Want to know what the Padre Island turtle patrol is doing to save Lepidochelys kempii? From the article: The team knows the odds of a payoff — the sight of a nest from the roughly 1,000 female turtles left in the world — is slim. Still, they press on. They endure long hours on patrol