Rodney Lewis

Nottinghamshire is the UK’s tortoise-napping capital Nottinghamshire tortoise owners beware – you are more likely to have your precious pet stolen living in the county than anywhere else in Britain. There have been six tortoise thefts in the county since 2010, coming in joint first with Guildford, in Surrey, according to missing pet website Animal Search UK. And animal charities, reptile experts and the police […]

Metal heads and body burdens: Lake Michigan turtles can’t get the lead out You likely won’t find any painted and snapping turtles headbanging to Metallica in Lake Michigan wetlands. But heavy metal runs in their veins. These turtles accumulate heavy metals in their tissues, according to a recent study in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Some of those metals come from local industries. “There’s reason to

Spotting beautiful spotted turtles on the Ga. coast Southeastern Georgia is renowned for its impressive diversity of native turtles —from venerable landlubbers like box turtles and gopher tortoises to our varied freshwater types like stinkpots and snappers, softshells and cooters, a large number of different species inhabit our area. Hands-down one of the most beautiful and engagingly-patterned species in Georgia is the aptly named spotted

Alligator snapping turtle making a comeback thanks to Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery Spanning 235 acres next to Pennington Creek, the TNFH stands as the largest federal hatchery in the southwest region of the U.S., and the largest warm-water hatchery in the country. It features three fish-holding houses, four circular tanks, and six large concrete raceways. But underneath the surface of a select few of its

Turtle With Deformed Shell Has Very Important Doctor Visit Through radiographs, they discovered the poor guy had a collapsed lung that could be related to his old shell injury. What exactly happened to this snapping turtle and his shell will likely remain a mystery. But one thing’s for sure: He’s been in the right hands. Click the link to find out how he’s doing… Want

Scientific trip teaches students to be travelers of the world Bollinger and Michael Marek, an advanced environmental science and chemistry teacher, chaperoned 18 students on a scientific research and immersion trip through Ecology Project International to the Galápagos. Bollinger’s group returned last week. Their work helped scientists in an ongoing research project in Galápagos National Park. A lot of the work centered on the giant

Peeking into Gopher Tortoise Burrows at Birdsong Walking among the grasses, flowers, and forbs growing in a longleaf pine forest, you’ll want to keep an eye out for gopher tortoise burrows. They’re just big enough for your foot to slide in and trip you. In the video, we visit a few burrows at Birdsong Nature Center in Grady County, Georgia. Our group of local families

First Protection for Endangered Hoge’s Side-necked Turtle Thanks to Rainforest Trust donors and other supporters, 236 acres of crucial rainforest and wetland habitat for Hoge’s Side-necked Turtle have been purchased in Brazil. Securing this land as a private reserve will help recover the Hoge’s Side-necked Turtle population and may be the best hope of saving it from extinction. On February 26, 2016, Rainforest Trust supported

Costa Rican men convicted for killing conservationist and raping volunteers A Costa Rican court has sentenced four men to decades in prison for the 2013 murder of an environmentalist and the rape of four western female volunteers who were with him. The judgment capped a nine-week retrial of seven men accused of killing Jairo Mora, a 26-year-old Costa Rican working to protect sea turtle nests