Category: Wild Turtles & Tortoises

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Man Gets 30 Days In Jail For Knowingly Disturbing A Sea Turtle

Carlos Argenis Hernandez was sentenced to 30 days in jail for knowingly disturbing a sea turtle, an endangered species. [...]
Missouri Takes Steps To Ban Commercial Hunting Of Three Turtle Species

Missouri Takes Steps To Ban Commercial Hunting Of Three Turtle Species

Data models show that the state's turtle populations cannot sustain any more losses. [...]
Decades Long Sea Turtle Conservation Efforts Paying Off

Decades Long Sea Turtle Conservation Efforts Paying Off

Conservation efforts over the last 40+ years of sea turtles in the United States are paying off. [...]
Gopher Tortoise Populations Get Bolstered In Aiken, South Carolina

Gopher Tortoise Populations Get Bolstered In Aiken, South Carolina

Scientists hope to have a population of 250 adult gopher tortoises in the Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve. [...]
USFWS Lists The Sonoyta Mud Turtle As An Endangered Species

USFWS Lists The Sonoyta Mud Turtle As An Endangered Species

It is estimated that there are about 100 Sonyota mud turtles in the wild. [...]
Ban On Collection Of Snapping Turtles, 13 Other Species Urged In Arkansas

Ban On Collection Of Snapping Turtles, 13 Other Species Urged In Arkansas

Currently there are no limits to the number of turtles collected in the wild in Arkansas. [...]
Breeding Program Launched For Extinct Galapagos Tortoise

Breeding Program Launched For Extinct Galapagos Tortoise

A breeding program at the Galapagos National Park in the Galapagos Islands will hopefully result in Floreana giant tortoise offspring. [...]
Volunteers Assess Sea Turtle Nest Damage Caused By Hurricane Irma

Volunteers Assess Sea Turtle Nest Damage Caused By Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma serves as a reminder that an entire nesting season could have been disrupted had the storm hit in July. [...]
30 Western Swamp Tortoises, Australia’s Most Critically Endangered Reptile, Released Into Wild

30 Western Swamp Tortoises, Australia’s Most Critically Endangered Reptile, Released Into Wild

More than 1,040 western swamp tortoises have been successfully bred as part of Western Shield, a breeding program to bolster the wild populations of t [...]
Western Pond Turtles in Washington Rebound From Brink of Extinction

Western Pond Turtles in Washington Rebound From Brink of Extinction

Although the population has reached 1,000, the Western pond turtle remains an endangered species in Washington state. [...]

Two-Headed Baby Loggerhead Sea Turtle Found and Released in Florida

The chance of survival into adulthood for this little turtle is slim. [...]
Florida FWC Looking For Person Who Painted Gopher Tortoise Blue

Florida FWC Looking For Person Who Painted Gopher Tortoise Blue

Officials have since removed the blue paint and released the tortoise back into its burrow. [...]
Couple Gets Six Months for Smuggling Sea Turtle Eggs into California

Couple Gets Six Months for Smuggling Sea Turtle Eggs into California

Olga Jumenes was no stranger to law enforcement, the U.S. Attorney's office said. [...]
More Than 100 Seized Endangered Tortoises Returned to Madagascar

More Than 100 Seized Endangered Tortoises Returned to Madagascar

139 radiated tortoises and seven angonoka tortoises were smuggled from Madagascar and discovered in India. [...]
Mutilated Sea Turtle Found On West Side Of Oahu, Hawaii

Mutilated Sea Turtle Found On West Side Of Oahu, Hawaii

All sea turtles whether dead or alive are legally protected in Hawaii [...]
California Couple Plead Guilty To Sea Turtle Egg Poaching

California Couple Plead Guilty To Sea Turtle Egg Poaching

More than 900 eggs were seized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in November 2014. [...]
New Desert Tortoise Species Discovered and Described

New Desert Tortoise Species Discovered and Described

A new species of desert tortoise has been discovered and described by a conservation geneticist with the University of Arizona.  The turtle, cal [...]

Volunteers Save Turtles And Bullfrogs From Drained Oklahoma Pond

Dozens of turtles and countless tadpoles saved after a pond was drained in Tulsa. [...]
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