Rodney Lewis

Struggles of Malaysia’s sea turtles BLINK. Blink. After a deep, peaceful sleep, he must have felt like he’d just woken up to a circus. Surrounding his temporary home in the bright blue plastic tray are curious humans, pushing at each other to have a closer look. He must have been glad to be hidden under the matching blue blanket as he thought about his escape. […]

Northeast Florida gopher tortoise count underway Heads down with their eyes scanning the ground, the three were census-takers of a sort. Instead of knocking on doors and asking personal questions, they ran a scope with a video camera attached to the end of a snake-like 15-foot cable down a hole in hope of glimpsing the resident gopher tortoise home at the Branan Field Wildlife and

What to Do With All That Ghost Gear? S jo accessories is the creative outlet of design-led research and development project ‘Threads of the Indus’, committed to empowering village-based marginalised craft communities towards creating social change through their own agency. Central Saint Martins (UAL) textile design graduate, Seher Mirza, initiated the project in 2009/10, as part of her PhD design research at the Royal College

Plight of Chinese turtles shows lax protection in China’s nature reserves China’s nature reserves are woefully inadequate at protecting biodiversity, a 12-year study of turtle poaching in dozens of conservation areas has found. The research results, published 6 March in Current Biology, focus on turtles but draw larger conclusions about the state of wildlife conservation in China. The authors note that China has 2700 nature

Maharashtra in India to study Lepidochelys olivacea migratory route In a first for Maharashtra and the west coast, Olive Ridley turtles at various beaches at Ratnagiri will be tagged to understand their migratory pattern. Maharashtra will be the second state in India, after Odisha, to understand their breeding pattern and movement. In a joint effort by state forest department and mangrove cell, the tagging process

Rare, lethargic Platysternon megacephalum being trained to regain its wild side Since arriving at the World Freshwater Aquarium Aquatotto Gifu in June 2015, the turtle has appeared devoid of all drive, mainly staying idle in the corner of its tank. Yuka Kondo, a 26-year-old animal trainer at Aquatotto Gifu, is currently helping the lethargic big-headed turtle reclaim its wild side. Click the link to find

Turtles and tortoises take centre stage at Delhi The third National Freshwater Turtle and Tortoise Strategic Conservation Action Planning and Red List Assessment Workshop took place in Delhi from February 16 to 18, 2017. Nature inFocus was present at this meeting that had gathered some of the top minds in the country to discuss the status of chelonian conservation, which is at a critical juncture

28 years of Lepidochelys olivacea conservation on Chennia’s beaches The SSCTN has been carrying out their annual patrols for the last 28 years, determined to ensure that the Olive Ridley turtle does not pass away into extinction. Turtle conservation on the Chennai coast began in 1971, when a few dedicated wildlife enthusiasts began walking the beaches of Madras to document the status of and threats

Nantucket Sound location of most fatal turtle entanglements By Aug. 1, Chatham fisherman Jamie Eldredge has pulled the 200 conch pots he has in Nantucket Sound. He has made the summer switch to fishing for dogfish in the Atlantic Ocean. In doing so, Eldredge has avoided what has become a major headache for conch fishermen — large leatherback turtles that get tangled up in conch