Galveston, Texas (May 8, 2014) – Turtle Island Restoration Network will be celebrating the first anniversary of the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle being named the Texas’s state sea turtle with…
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“To allow dirty energy companies to industrialise this critical nesting and feeding haven for sea turtles in the Great Barrier Reef will push these vulnerable marine animals ever closer to the brink,” said Teri Shore, program director of Turtle Island Restoration Network in California.
The International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS) passed a strongly worded resolution urging the Australian government and state of Queensland to adopt a moratorium on all industrial development in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area until a strong protection and management scheme for sea turtles and all outstanding universal values of the Great Barrier Reef is implemented.
On Monday, after more than nine months in preventive detention, the seven men suspected of participating in the killing of Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora last May were formally charged with murder and a host of other offenses.
California, EEUU, 6 de mayo del 2014 Comunicado de prensa para su difusión La Sociedad Internacional de Tortugas Marinas (ISTS) aprobó una fuerte resolución exhortando al Presidente de México, Enrique…
The International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS) passed a strongly worded resolution urging Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to stop the high rates of bycatch of endangered North Pacific loggerhead turtles in commercial fisheries operating in the Gulf of Ulloa, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Each year Mexican fisheries off the southern Baja California peninsula kill more than 2,000 endangered loggerheads as they fish for halibut and sharks.
You might call it Texas’ Day of the Turtle – the state’s very own turtle. On May 10th, a so-called “shell-e-bration” will be held on the first anniversary of the Kemp’s ridley…