Please help stop the slaughter of turtles in Bali by signing these two petitions on Change.Org. Each signature will be sent to the Governor of Bali and the Bali Tourist Board directly. The slaughter is illegal under Government Act No 7/1999, which prohibits the killing and trading Sea Turtles !! Sadly, the issue is now [...]
Puerto Rico has introduced a new law protecting a swathe of the island's coast that has become a major nesting site for the world's largest turtle, the leatherback. The Northeast Ecological Corridor comprises 14 sq km (5.4 sq miles) of the island's coast. The law ends a 15-year battle which pitted developers against green activists [...]
Leatherback sea turtle nesting. / Owen Humphreys/PA Wire via AP Images The world's largest turtle, the Pacific leatherback sea turtle, faces extinction over the next 20 years. A team of scientist has documented a 78 percent decline in the number of nests of the leatherback sea turtle in the Pacific Ocean. The study looked at [...]
TORTUGUERO, Costa Rica -- A sole pair of sea turtle tracks is all that punctuates the serenity of sand along the protected beach on this Central American country’s Caribbean side. The turtle made it out of the ocean to a preferred nesting spot -- but never made it back. It was the first turtle researchers [...]
At least three people have died and hundreds more were sickened after consuming toxic turtle meat in Mentawai Island, West Sumatra, a local news portal reported on Wednesday. Rijel Samaloisa, deputy mayor of Mentawai, told news portal Vivanews.com that three children — a 3-year-old, an 8-year-old and an 11-month-old – died after eating the tainted [...]
At the meeting a few days ago in Tacoma, Washington, the Council considered a full array of proposals to expand the use of drift gillnets off California and Oregon and into an area currently designated to protect Pacific. We can breathe a momentary sigh of relief. This Monday, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously [...]
New plans to protect elephants, rhinos and other species will be discussed at a critical meeting that begins in Bangkok on Sunday. Delegates will review the convention on the international trade in endangered species (CITES). Around 35,000 animals and plants are at present protected by the treaty. But with a global "extinction crisis" facing many [...]
From the Jakarta Post, January 25, 2013 The illegal green turtle trade in Bali has returned to an old style, the smuggling and trading of living animals, environmental activists claimed. Wayan Wiradnyana, chairman of the Bali Sea Turtle Society, said in a meeting in Denpasar on Thursday that the newest mode of alleged illegal trading [...]
The apprentices of a local bank in Liechtenstein (VP Bank Vaduz), all turtle lovers of course, baked turtle cookies and sold them within the bank. They raised CHF 633.25 ($683 USD) which was donated to Turtle Foundation. A big Thank You to all the cookie makers and cookie buyers!
Try your luck and win one of our fantastic prizes! The popular Turtle Foundation raffle has been launched again! The entire revenue from this raffle (CHF 20'000, which is more than $20,000 USD) if all tickets are sold!) will be used for our two conservation and protection projects in Indonesia and in the Cape Verde [...]
