Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Turtle Wife's News Feb-March 2015

Turtle Wife's Newsletter: TURTLE STORIES &
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World champion kitesurfer rescues sea turtle

As he was riding, world champion kitesurfer Mitu Monteiro
noticed something floating in the water dangerously close to
the rocks of Serra Negra Beach on Sal Island in Cape
Verde, Africa.

Disregarding the danger, Monteiro rode in to take a closer
look only to discover a distressed sea turtle tangled in plastic
and struggling to breath and swim.

“I know it would have died if I didn’t rescue it,” Monterio told
 Caters News Agency. “She was unable to get food as the 
filament was preventing her from diving and it was wound 
tightly around her neck.”
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Quelonios turtle hatchlings are released by members of the 
Pe-de-Pincha project, into a lake of the Igapo-Acu community 
in the Amazon municipality Careiro, Brazil February 5, 2015. 
According to the project, which is part of the Federal University 
of Amazonas, they are releasing 1,230 hatchlings into the wild. 
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No Soup for You! 22 Endangered Baby Turtles,
Destined for Stock Pots, Now Safe at SoundWaters



 















STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 6, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE)

As part of a global wildlife-trafficking issue that is growing
exponentially, 22 tiny baby turtles - likely destined for soup
pots in China - were recently rescued and brought to a
nursery at the SoundWaters Coastal Education Center,
where they are being coddled and cared for after a harrowing, 
near-smuggling experience.


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Meet the 183-year-old tortoise who is the
world’s oldest living land creature











Jonathan the tortoise, who lives on the British territory of St Helena, 
is thought to be the world’s oldest living land creature.
His wrinkly skin, cataracts and difficulty swallowing are common
enough in old age. But Jonathan had been ambling around for a
century before today’s pensioners were born. 

At the age of 183, this tortoise is thought to be the world’s oldest
living land creature. Born in 1832 at the latest, he has plodded
through two world wars and numerous revolutions, outlasting all
his human companions. He was even photographed, looking rather
elderly, with a prisoner during the Boer War, which ended in 1902.

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Two Miami men found with loggerhead turtle tail,
charged with felonies

They might not have killed it, but two Miami men landed
in the Keys jail Thursday when they were found with the tail
of a loggerhead sea turtle in one of the men's truck.

    David Hernandez Sordo, 48, and Pedro Suarez, 59,
remained in the Monroe County Detention Center Friday,
each charged with a felony count of possessing a sea turtle.
Loggerheads are federally protected due to their
threatened status.

Ugh, Ed.   
Read more if you choose to.  
 
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16 sea turtles released back into natural
habitat in southern Turkey



 













Sixteen sea turtles have so far been released back into their
natural habitat after being treated at Turkey’s first ever sea turtle
medical center, in the Mezitli district of the southern
province of Mersin.

Sea turtles are treated as an endangered species at the center,
which is located in the 100th Year Davultepe forest in the district. 

The center treats turtles that have been wounded in shark attacks
in the sea, dog attacks on the shore during spawning periods,
or after getting caught up in fishnets. They are looked after in giant
water tanks until they are fully recovered.

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In the same year that gave birth to Earth Day and the modern
environmental movement, five idealistic young attorneys
banded together to protect the nation's precious resources
and wildlife. Determined to overcome the forces of pollution
and corporate greed, they called themselves the Natural
Resources Defense Council.

     Four and a half decades later, NRDC is the powerhouse of the
environmental movement. Employing nearly 500 scientists,
lawyers, and policy experts backed by 1.4 million members and
online activists, we fight for the planet and its people in the halls
of Congress, communities across the country, and nations
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Sadly, turtles are still being sold in NYC’s Chinatown, Ed.
Turtle Trafficking By Jessica Leigh Hester



 















Look for a ceramic turtle in front of the store. That’s the signal.
James knows it’s the spot to score red-eared sliders.

     It’s a perfectly timed endeavor. Eight minutes before closing
time, James (who asked that I not use his last name) dashes
into a New York Chinatown tchotchke shop—located on Mott
Street, just below Canal—with a wad of cash. The boxes are
waiting for him. A shopkeeper, a woman in her 70s, struggles
to wrangle them from a back room obscured by a curtain and boxes
of paper fans. 

     It looks like she ought to buckle under the weight, but she
manages, and when he arrives, they are ready to be moved
—quickly. He hands over $200: exact change. “100 cages,
too,” he says. “The good kind.” He counts out another $100,
and the woman shuffles away to retrieve them.

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Turtle Conservation at Dubai's Burj-Al-Arab Aquarium



 













The aquarium at Burj Al Arab is an integral part of the world’s
most luxurious hotel.  In three segments, the aquarium
provides an ornamental backdrop in the lobby and complements
and adorns the guests’ dining experience both in the private
dining area and in Al Mahara, the Burj’s signature seafood restaurant.

     The aquarium is also the site of ground-breaking conservation
initiatives, the most notable being their sea turtle rehabilitation
project which is run in collaboration with the Jumeirah Group
and Dubai’s Wildlife Protection Office.

    
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Photo: James P. Gibbs, SUNY-ESF
NEAR-EXTINCT GALAPAGOS ISLAND TORTOISES
MAKE COLOSSAL COMEBACK

by Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer. Oct. 28, 2014

Giant tortoises that were once driven to the brink of extinction
on a tiny Galápagos island have made an amazing comeback,
a new study reveals.

The tortoise population on the island of Española dwindled to
just 15 animals in the 1960s, because of damage to their
habitat caused by feral goats. Then, about 40 years ago,
captive-bred tortoises were released on the island, and now
there are about 1,000 of them living and breeding in the wild.

"It's one of the greatest conservation success stories," said
James Gibbs, a conservation biologist at the SUNY College
of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.
Gibbs led the study published today (Oct. 28) in the journal
PLOS ONE.

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28 tortoises smuggled into UK are now
living at Blackpool Zoo

Known as the Sulcata Tortoises, these tiny creatures
are all under a year old and just a few inches long. But
within time, these relatively rare tortoises could get as
big as 10 stone and live up to a whopping 100 years.

“We have built a fantastic relationship with Borderforce
over the years and work closely with them to rehome
any seized reptiles,” John Paul Houston, assistant head
of the Animal Department at Blackpool Zoo, said.

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Boom in shipments of turtles overseas could lead to
protective measures. 

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is proposing a
new level of protection for certain freshwater turtles,
concerned that a massive increase in overseas demand
for the reptiles could hurt their long-term prospects.

The proposal from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service involves
four species: the Florida softshell, the smooth softshell,
the spiny softshell and the common snapping turtle.

While none of the four species is at risk of extinction,
federal officials and biologists say that a booming international
trade in turtles had prompted concerns about the animals’
long-term survival.

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Reptiles play vital role in protecting ecology

Hitherto viewed by many here and elsewhere as
an insignificant part of the fauna of the Blue Mountains,
reptiles have of late been generating considerable
interest among not only wildlife enthusiasts and students of
wildlife biology but also the public on account of growing
awareness about their role in protecting this ecologically
fragile area.

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Mystery of missing giant tortoise has happy ending
in Daytona Beach

Nicholas Montagna was flummoxed.

One of his two giant tortoises went missing Sunday, leaving
Montagna, his family, neighbors and other in the community
searching for answers, and for Cecil. And even though the
100-lb-plus tortoise is safe and sound once again, his
disappearance remains a mystery.

Read more--about yet another sulcata tortoise lost
and found.

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Northern River Terrapin Acquired
in Myanmar

Efforts to save the critically endangered Northern
River Terrapin (Batagur baska) in Myanmar recently took
a great leap forward when the TSA/Wildlife Conservation
Society (WCS) Turtle Team was granted permission to
transfer a large adult turtle living in a pagoda pond to
more equitable quarters.

The pond, at Botataung Pagoda in downtown Yangon, has
been home to the turtle since at least 1987, but probably
longer. Although its origins remain clouded in mystery, we
suspect the turtle was brought from the lower Ayeyarwady
Delta many years ago and released into the pond by a traveling
pilgrim.

The symbolic release of fish, turtles, and small birds
is commonplace at Buddhist temples throughout Asia; by
liberating a captive animal, a person is believed to earn
karmic merit.

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Here's a quiz I never expected to see:
Which species of sea turtle are you?
I got Green Sea Turtle. Ed.


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Where do you fit in with the seven species of sea turtles?
Find out from the experts at Sea Turtle Conservancy...
Community Post: Which Species Of Sea Turtle Are You?
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A Turtle Mystery in NY’s Jamaica Bay
Something strange is happening to the diamondback terrapin
turtles of Jamaica Bay, though there’s some question as to
precisely what that strange thing means.

“Nobody has ever seen anything like this before,” said Russell
Burke, a Hofstra University ecology professor and one of the
foremost experts on Jamaica Bay’s population of diamondback
terrapin turtles, the largest concentration in the state.

“It’s a puzzle.”

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Lonesome George, Immortalized
Natural History Museum Displays
a Giant Tortoise
Extinction is forever, as the conservationists say.

Desiccation, it turns out, is only nearly so.

The giant Galápagos tortoise known as Lonesome George,
whose death in 2012 signified the end of his subspecies,
has been preserved for posterity in a one-of-a-kind effort
by expert taxidermists. But the work took about half a
year longer than expected, in large part because the tortoise
stubbornly refused to dry out.

“That’s always the great unknown, how long the animal
will take to dry,” said George A. Dante Jr., whose studio,
Wildlife Preservations, in Woodland Park, N.J., was given the
task of preparing the 170-pound, five-foot-long tortoise.

Lonesome George — now fully dry and fully preserved, posed
as if he were looking for his favorite food, cactus — is on
display until early January at the American Museum of Natural
History, one of the partners in the effort.

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A nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the
conservation, preservation of habitat, and the promotion
of proper husbandry and captive propagation of turtles and
tortoises.  www.nytts.org

TURTLE RESCUE OF LONG ISLAND: A non-profit
501(c)(3) organization that works to rehabilitate native
turtles and find homes for those that cannot be released.
Also takes in and adopts out turtles and tortoises of all
species that can no longer be kept for whatever reason.
Location, Long Island, New York www.turtlerescues.org

INDIANA TURTLE CARE in New Palestine, Indiana, is
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