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• Featured video: saving sea turtles in Mexicos Magdalena Bay

  
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  A new short film, Viva la tortuga documents the struggle to save loggerhead and green sea turtles in Magdalena Bay, Mexico. Once a region for a massive sea turtle meat market, the turtles now face a new threat: bycatch. Loggerhead sea turtles are drowning in bottom-set gillnets, unable to escape from the nets once ...
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• Indonesia: 2,000 Smuggled Turtle Eggs Seized in Balikpapan

  
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  Tunggadewa Mattangkilang Jakarta Globe 4 May 13; Balikpapan, East Kalimantan. About 2,000 eggs from turtles on the verge of extinction in Southeast Sulawesi have been seized by port security in East Kalimantan after they were sent via passenger boat and addressed to a person in Samarinda.Police in Balikpapan seized ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Leatherback Sea Turtle: Dream with the Queen of Cups

  
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  I don’t dream much. Well, I guess that’s probably not true; I’m sure I’m probably dreaming all the time. But I usually wake up not remembering if I dreamed at all. So when I actually remembered a dream recently, I was excited to try a tarot reading to help give me a little insight about it.  The first card I ...
  2 weeks ago

• If You Build Turtles a Home, Will They Live In It?

  
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  U.S. activists have worked tirelessly to ensure that the endangered sea turtles have places to live, eat and breed, and now there’s good news – all of that effort has indeed helped the turtles. A new study shows that green sea turtles are using and thriving in ocean habitats that have been specifically protected for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Boaters Urged to Slow Down, Watch for Manatees, Sea Turtles

  
  The Wild Side — Authority: 134
  With sea turtle and manatee sightings on the rise along Georgia’s coast, boaters should be on the lookout for these big and rare animals. Boat strikes are a leading cause of sea turtle strandings and manatee injuries and deaths. Manatees and all sea turtle species found in Georgia are protected by federal and state ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2013 sea-turtle walks: One of Florida’s natural thrills

  
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  Sea-turtle walks are like seeing a National Geographic film in person. But you need reservations to join these night-time beach walks to watch giant sea turtles nesting. Early May is the best time to book a turtle walk because many programs fill up immediately.
  2 weeks ago

• Loggerhead Sea Turtle

  
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  The loggerhead sea turtle is commonly found in U.S. waters. However, due to pollution and developments in their habitats, the species became a part of the threatened or endangered list and with continued relief efforts, hopefully, it can be taken off this list. Loggerhead Sea Turtle   The loggerhead sea ...
  3 weeks ago

• FlipperBot robot locomotion inspired by sea turtle hatchlings

  
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  Collaboration in an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Northwestern University and Temple University led to development of a robot inspired by sea turtle hatchlings. Named FlipperBot, the robot is being developed for better understanding of principles that govern ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sea turtles inspire beach-walking robot

  
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  A sea turtle-inspired robot has been created by a group of researchers in the US to help understand the mechanics of walking and crawling on complex surfaces. Dubbed “Flipperbot”, the...
  3 weeks ago

• Animal Rescue Update: Loggerhead Hatchling Scheduled for Release!

  
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  National Aquarium’s Animal Rescue team has just received word that the loggerhead hatchling we rescued in October has passed his exit exam and will be released off the coast of North Carolina tomorrow (weather permitting)! The loggerhead hatchling during it’s exit exam earlier today! First discovered on ...
  3 weeks ago

• We love turtles!

  
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  On Long Caye, we’re privileged to be in one of the best locations in the Caribbean for seeing marine life up close and personal. This photo of a brilliantly colored hawksbill sea turtle was captured very recently by guests Gert and Kathy Walter while snorkeling at our Adventure Island. Some of the most interesting ...
  4 weeks ago

• Earth Day 2013 – Looking at the Animals in Distress – Compilation of Sea, River, Lake and Land Events

  
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  Save Our Seas – Earth Day 2013 ** In 2009, 55 killer whales beached on Kommetjie Long Beach in Cape Town. (2009) [Cape Town, South Africa] http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/03/24/six-of-19-beached-whales-dead-some-to-be-euthanased ** Six of 19 beached whales dead, some to be euthanased (2013) [South ...
  4 weeks ago

• Indonesia: E. Kalimantan Islanders Threatening Turtle Survival, Conservationists Say

  
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  Tunggadewa Mattangkilang Jakarta Globe 17 Apr 13;Berau. The absence of wildlife conservationists from a key turtle nesting island off East Kalimantan’s Berau district has had a disastrous impact on the survival prospects of the species, activists say.Rusli Andar, the coordinator for WWF Indonesia’s East Kalimantan ...
  4 weeks ago

• 2013 sea-turtle walks: One of Florida’s natural thrills

  
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  Sea-turtle walks are like seeing a National Geographic film in person. But you need reservations to join these night-time beach walks to watch giant sea turtles nesting. Early May is the best time to book a turtle walk because many programs fill up immediately.
  5 weeks ago

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