Rodney Lewis

ACRES repatriates turtles and tortoises back to Malaysia The Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) sent six rescued reptiles back to Malaysia on Monday (April 16), the first time that it has done a mass repatriation. It is part of Acres’ efforts to rescue, rehabilitate and repatriate wild animals nabbed by illegal traders for their meat or to be sold as pets. Monday’s batch […]

Nearly 11,000 Radiated Tortoises Seized in Madagascar! A confiscation of monumental proportions, and the largest for tortoises or freshwater turtles in the history of the Turtle Survival Alliance has occurred in Madagascar. On the night of April 10, 2018, TSA staff were alerted to a confiscation of 10,976 Radiated Tortoises (Astrochelys radiata) from a single residence in the city of Toliara on the southwestern coast

Wildlife fund shells out cash to turtle Friends The Friends of Kingston Inner Harbour group has received a grant from the World Wildlife Fund-Canada. A $1,000 grant will fund two public awareness events this spring to allow the Friends to educate Kingstonians on the turtle populations that make their home on the shores of downtown Kingston. “We are pretty excited about getting a grant from

Colebrook Land Conservancy presents program on the turtle “Turtle populations are dwindling due to a multiple of factors, such as habitat loss, poaching, and now global warming is playing a role,” explains John Foley, a naturalist, preserve steward and outreach coordinator for the Great Hollow Nature Preserve and Ecological Research Center in New Fairfield. “A recent publication from the Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group

Sea turtle corpse research offers glimpses into their lives Every week, Erin Seney picks through the stomach contents of dead turtles. It’s tedious, smelly work for this assistant research scientist at the department of biology. Each element of the stomach sample must be carefully separated and logged. Using tweezers and a magnifying glass, she creates little piles of claws, shells and other materials that provide

Elongated tortoise, shrinking habitat The elongated tortoise is a species of tortoise once found in different areas of the country including Sylhet, Bangladesh. However, shrinking habitat and demand for their meat have seen the tortoise’s numbers decline in recent years. Where once they commonly occurred in the calm waters of beels, in river channels and forests, their distribution is now restricted to hilly areas only.

The Chinese Feast on Virginia’s Turtles With the coming of spring, snapping turtles have emerged from their winter homes in the mud, ready to reproduce and to spend the summer trolling ponds, lakes, rivers and streams. They’re a hearty species with few natural enemies. Now, however, turtles which can live more than a hundred years are in danger. As a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth

Jakarta’s flourishing trade in threatened turtles and tortoises under spotlight They are shy creatures, but for the thousands of threatened tortoises and freshwater turtles found on sale in Jakarta’s shops and markets, there’s no shelter from the glare of the illegal trade spotlight, finds a new TRAFFIC report. Researchers found 4,985 individuals of 65 different species of tortoise and freshwater turtles in just seven locations

Westy the Western Swamp Tortoise book launched at Ellenbrook Library WESTY the Western Swamp Tortoise has come to life, with the children’s book launched at the Ellenbrook Library last week. The book, written by Friends of the Western Swamp Tortoise committee member Cathy Levett, helps to educate kids on the critically endangered animal. The book was launched by Environment Minister Stephen Dawson and Swan Hills