Rodney Lewis

A tortoise with wheels! ‎ Mrs T is now sporting a huge pair of front wheels to aid her perambulation around the garden. The wheels, fitted after her front legs where amputated due to rat damage when in hibernation. From my travels around the web I have seen various attachments to aid tortoise moment, wheels the most common form. Sea Turtles have also benefited from

A WWI tortoise veteran They say tortoises live a long time and a tortoise collected during WWI which is now living in New Zealand definitely demonstrates this. Meanwhile, 100 volunteers gather at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center for there sole meeting of the year to discuss the coming years sea turtle duties. The West Sumatra administration is aiming to eradicate the

Diamondback Terrapins on the move So it’s starting to warm up in North American and the Diamondback terrapins are stirring into life as the Turtle Journal team are finding out. The Brevard Zoo in Florida would like the public to report sightings of the East Coast Diamondback Terrapin, they are concerned about their population. A vet in the UK examines 162 tortoise for post hibernation

Swings and Roundabouts A number of the stories today highlight that illegal trade in turtles and tortoises still continues relatively unabated. A seizure of turtles in Hong Kong is waiting to be returned to Pakistan once the transport costs are paid, more individuals are arrested for selling the rarest tortoise in the world, and another pair of smugglers is caught. On the plus side, more

Adopt Me! The Arizona Game and Fish Department held an adoption day on Saturday for their Gopher tortoises (Gopherus morafkai) . The event allowed pre-approved applicants to choose a tortoise to take home. Each adoptie was required to complete a check list and provide photographic evidence of the environment the tortoise would be living in. The AZGF webiste has all the information. Turtle News From

Special People Save a Special Species From late November through December 2014, volunteers track down 1,238 sea turtles, stabilizing and triaging them and transporting then to aquariums for rehabilitation. The article describes the amazing event from several points of view, showing that people from all walks of life can help out. Heather MacKenzie ended up documenting the event and has a film entitled “Sea Rescue”

Plastic is not food This juvenile sea turtle starved to death after filling its self up with indigestible plastic. This sad story reminds us all about the effect we are having on the planet. The following wikipedia page describes the Great Pacific garbage patch, these are huge concentrations of plastic particles suspended within the water column, creating a soup of indigestible particles. Unfortunately marine animals