Category: Wild Turtles & Tortoises
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
More than 900 eggs were seized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in November 2014. [...]
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. [...]
Legos Wheels Helps Rehab Tortoise Found On Disney Property
Wheels spent 165 days in Captivity and was released all healed up [...]
Rescuing Desert Tortoises
Although a variety of common pet lizards, snakes and turtles are often in need of rescue, one particular U.S. tortoise often finds itself in harm&rsqu [...]
Leatherback Trust Biologist Removes Plastic Fork From Nose of Olive Ridley Turtle
Please reduce your use of plastic items that are "disposable." [...]
Blanding’s Turtle Gets Some Assistance In Indiana
Emydoidea blandingii may get some help from the Friends of Cobus Creek in Indiana [...]
Japan Railway Takes Novel Approach To Keep Turtles Off Train Tracks
Concrete ditches help prevent turtles from getting stuck in the switch track on a Japanese train track. [...]
Man Caught Smuggling Dozens Of Turtles Down His Pants Expected To Plead Guilty
Kai Xu had 51 live turtles in his possession when he was caught trying to cross into Canada. [...]
Florida Turtle Stuck In Plastic Bag Saved By Melbourne City Worker
Plastic bags and plastic pollution kills and maims hundreds of thousands of reptiles and other animals every year. [...]
Dead Leatherback Turtle Found On New England Beach Died From Trio Of Human Hazards
Leatherback sea turtles primarily eat jellyfish and plastic tends to look like jellyfish in the ocean. [...]
New Galapagos Tortoise Species Discovered And Described
There are two species of Galapagos tortoise on Santa Cruz Island. [...]
Philippine Authorities Arrest 3 For Possessing Threatened Turtles
The suspects allegedly had Palawan forest turtles, Asian leaf turtles and Southeast Asian box turtles in their possession. [...]
Tortoise Appearance On Walking Dead
The hapless tortoise walks into the path of Enid [...]
Russians Sentenced To 15 Months In Singapore Prison For Smuggling Endangered Pond Turtles
27 of the 206 pond turtles have since died. [...]
How Do You Collect Sea Turtle Poop? You Build a Giant “Nappy”
Australian researchers built a device out of a sun shirt, some velcro and a custom poop collector to collect poop samples. [...]
Check Out This Albino Sea Turtle Hatchling Video
A sea turtle monitor who was excavating a nest on Florida’s Highland Beach found this albino sea turtle hatchling. Now sea turtle hatchlings are [...]
Researchers Discover Hawksbill Sea Turtles Are Biofluorescent
Divers were shooting biofluorescent corals when a Hawksbill sea turtle swam into the light and revealed it too was biofluorescent. [...]
Tourists Disrupt Sea Turtle Nestings In Costa Rica
Costa Rican Govt. upset that tourists disrupted sea turtle nesting with selfies and other bad behavior. [...]
Two Non-Native Chinese Soft-Shelled Turtles Spotted South of Boston
The species is nearly extinct in the wild, but is mass farmed for the food industry in China. [...]
Do You Want To Name An Injured Sea Turtle?
Do you want to help name a sea turtle that has been recuperating from its injuries at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center? A Kemp’s Ridley sea tu [...]
