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World Turtle News, 09/25/2015

Men Involved In Traffic Of Protected Spotted Turtles I, Columnia, SC 2 men have been sentenced on federal wildlife trafficking charges for operations involving protected spotted turtles. Baker, who sold about 35 spotted turtles is sentenced to 3 years probation for the wildlife and weapons charges while Robertson, who claim he has more than 119 spotted turtles was caught selling 26 spotted turtles to an […]

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World Turtle News, 09/23/2015

Besting Record For Green Sea Turtles In Florida With more than 12,000 nests on the coasts of Florida, Green sea turtles has set a new record for this year. Still in the Consevration category, learn more about the release of Fabio and about two surprisingly release of leather back sea turtles. Read more about “Memorializing loved ones” at the Galapagos Tortoise Conservation Center. Finally, if

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World Turtle News, 09/11/2015

Bellinger River Snapping Turtle Should Go Critically Endangered To continue with that Bellinger River turtle crisis that we first heard about a few months ago, the NSW Scientific Committee, today, wish to list this species as Critically Endangered. This decision was made after a mystery virus heavily impacted the species’ population in February. That virus spread upstream very quickly claiming hundreds of turtles on its

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World Turtle News, 09/10/2015

Tourists In Costa Rica Prevent Sea Turtle From Nesting Massive turtle arrivals known as arribadas were disturbed by heavy tourism. It is pretty unusual to see so many tourists on the beach on this time of the year but because of the lack of rainfall this year, tourists went out and “assisted” some arribadas. Unfortunately, many of them just stood in the way of turtles.

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World Turtle News, 09/02/2015

A New Virus Might Be The Cause Of The Death Of Bellinger River Snapping Turtles A new virus was detected by the Elizabeth MacArthur Agricultural Institute and they believe this could be the cause of the death of 350 Myuchelys georgesi. The virus Struck the region earlier this year and killed a lot of turtles. After other potential causes had been eliminated the innovative research

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World Turtle News, 08/28/2015

Tennessee Aquarium Welcomes Five New Sacalia bealei The Tennessee Aquarium has successfully hatched the endangered Beal’s-eyed Turtles, Sacalia bealei. The aquarium had their first hatchling in 2007, it was the first of its species known to hatch in a North American zoo or aquarium. The aquarium had other hatchlings in 2008, 2013 and 2014. This species suffered from a rapid decline over the past 15

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World Turtle News, 08/21/2015

Action Or No Action To Protect Threatened Turtle At Mojave National Preserve The National Parks Service is seeking people’s help to save a threatened species of fish and turtle in the Mojave National Preserve. An environmental assessment for the restoration of wetlands habitat in the Mojave National Preserve has been completed. The main goal is to sustain, in the long run, the populations of a

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World Turtle News, 08/19/2015

150 Confiscated Radiated Tortoises Return From France to Home In Madagascar 8 months ago, 150 radiated tortoises were confiscated in Paris airport. They were found in a secret compartment of a crate containing sea cucumbers and were destined to Laos. Weighting about 0.7 ounces and measuring around 1.5 inches, these juveniles were way too fragile to handle a flight straight back to Madagascar. Given how

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World Turtle News, 08/14/2015

Doston Drive Construction Might Not Harm Blanding’s Turtles No evidence of the presence of Blanding’s turtles was found on the construction site. Despite the report of a jogger who believe she spotted a turtle last summer, further investigations denied this report. An habitat assessment and migration plan was conducted by the Ames School Board along with Griggs Environmental Services. The Director of Facilities Planning and

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