Rodney Lewis

It’s World Sea Turtle Day! Video of a day in the life of an aquarium sea turtle It’s World Sea Turtle Day and the Audubon Aquarium is celebrating in a most special way. Staffers at the aquarium strapped a GoPro camera onto King Mydas, the popular giant green turtle, and gave us all an incredible look into a typical day inside the 400,000-gallon Gulf of […]

Bundaberg’s Mon Repos Turtle Centre gets $10m for expansion One of Bundaberg’s signature tourist attractions is set to receive a much needed upgrade. The Queensland Government has included $10 million in the state budget to expand the Mon Repos Turtle Centre. Bundaberg MP Leanne Donaldson said the investment, expected to support up to 20 local construction jobs, would improve the centre’s research facilities and attract

Researchers on the Lady Lisa track turtles on the high seas On a muggy June day in 2015, the crew aboard the R/V Lady Lisa pulled a sluggish sea turtle onto the ship’s deck. The loggerhead looked like it’d seen a streak of bad luck; a partially missing front flipper hinted at a run-in with a shark, and a barnacle-covered shell and marine leeches suggested

Working to get Georgia’s official state reptile off states “Endangered Species List” Georgia’s official state reptile is now on the state’s endangered species list, but the tortoise is finding new hope in a local nature preserve. In an effort the save the few Gopher Tortoise left, Georgia Power Company is teaming up with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to create a habitat near Plant

Marine biologists at Sharjah Aquarium release six Eretmochelys imbricata A group of endangered turtles was released into the ocean today after being rehabilitated by marine biologists at Sharjah Aquarium. The five adult and juvenile hawksbill turtles were reintroduced into the wild at the Natural Reserve at Al Hamriya Beach in Sharjah. Today’s event was held to coincide with World Turtle Day and is part of

Nova Scotia’s threatened wood turtles to get help from students Wood turtles are a species at risk in Nova Scotia and a group of young students from Digby to Aylesford are working together to try to bring their numbers back up as part of the Youth Leading Environmental Change Program. Katie McLean is a species at risk biologist with the Clean Annapolis River Project and

Sea turtles not being sucked into Florida’s Power & Light plant At Florida Power & Light, our sea turtle conservation program has been helping researchers study and protect these special animals for 40 years. Almost every day, sea turtles enter the intake pipes that run from the ocean to a canal outside our St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant, where they can be retrieved and examined