Rodney Lewis

Love caretta carettas from a distance As caretta caretta hatchlings, the struggling young members of the endangered sea turtle species, start to hit the sea on Turkey’s Mediterranean coasts, an expert has warned locals and tourists not to intervene in their habitat and refrain from feeding or touching them. “The high human population causes stress for these animals,” said Doğan Sözbilen, a board member of […]

Conservation authority working to save Apalone spinifera Conservation Intern Brendan Martin is releasing Spiny softshell turtles into the Sydenham River, read more about why. Quote: “Wading into a creek with a bucket of hatchlings in hand, Conservation Intern Brendan Martin searches for a safe place to release the young spiny softshell turtles in the Eastern Branch of the Sydenham River. He soon finds a grassy

All ages learn about Sea Turtles The Sea Turtle shower event held on Saturday celebrates the 101 sea turtle nests located this year throughout Pensacola Beach and the Gulf Islands National Seashore. Quote: “We have all kinds of groups and advocates out here today to help educate people about local conservation efforts and opportunities within the community,” said Jennifer Jackson, director of marketing with Margaritaville.

Glyptemys insculpta resuced in Brooklyn When Michelle spotted a wood turtle on her sidewalk in Brooklyn she new she had to do something. Quote: I knew she wouldn’t last long on my busy Brooklyn block. It would be nice to think that this turtle was a sign that the city was getting green enough that wild turtles were migrating here to live in their natural

Are sea turtles returning to Malta The last successful nesting of Caretta caretta at Ramla tal-Mixquqa (Golden Bay) was in the 1960’s. Article quote The loggerhead turtle breeding grounds closest to Malta are Spiaggia dei Conigli (Rabbit Beach) in Lampedusa and the shores of Tunisia and Libya. But the largest populations of loggerhead turtle in the Mediterranean are found in the eastern Mediterranean, with beaches

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

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

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