Category Archives: Turtles

Losing the leatherback turtle

The world’s largest living reptile may go extinct so that we can eat swordfish bY emily Georgy More than 35 government officials, fishers, scientists, and environmental group leaders convened in late April at the International Leatherback Survival Conference to address the emergency of the Pacific leatherback turtle, a species teetering on the edge of extinction […]

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Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol

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This information is brought to you by The Green Turtle Bay Vitamin Co. No turtle products are used in our nutrients! www.EnergyWave.com BEACHES SEA TURTLE PATROL About Sea Turtles (click here for additional turtle resources) Sea turtles have inhabited the oceans for over 100 million years. Today there are only seven species of this unique […]

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Surrogate mother for a baby hippo

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(This was emailed to me by a friend. Ed) NAIROBI (AFP) – A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said. The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 […]

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