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Two endangered loggerhead turtles were rescued in Rio’s Guanabara Bay on May 2. Anitta, a 238-pound adult female around 25 years old, was found with Shakira, a juvenile weighing roughly 163 pounds and aged 15 to 20.
Researchers from the Aruana Project named the pair in tribute to the “Choka Choka” performance in Copacabana.
— via O Globo
Mersin, Turkey
Newly hatched loggerhead turtles instinctively make their way to the sea
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty
We had a lecture about the diminishing population of loggerhead turtles the other day. A lot of it is due to human activity, and that made me really sad 😔
I just had one of the best nights of my entire life. I was driven in the open air back of a truck to a beach on the south east of Boa Vista, to a beach where female loggerhead turtles make their nests and a conservation group work hard to make sure as many of the nests as possible are protected.
We sat on the sand and watched the stars since there was no light pollution, while some of the guides searched for a nesting female and then watched as she laid about 60 eggs into a sandy hole in the ground. I got to hold a baby turtle too when one of the guides literally rescued it from a crab’s claws and showed it to us before helping it along to the ocean. On the drive back to our hotel the sky was cloudless and we could see thousands of stars.
I can’t remember a time when a night like this wasn’t on my bucket list and it feels so surreal to be able to cross it off.
Loggerhead turtles are among the species here that are internationally protected. This one was found dead with a fishing line hooked in its mouth
Photograph: Juan Cuetos/Courtesy of Oceana Europe
Stunning coral forests discovered around Sicily's deep sea volcanoes – in pictures
Scientists find a spectacular forest of bamboo coral, rare carnivorous sponges, and species never before seen in the region
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2018/jul/09/stunning-coral-forests-discovered-around-sicilys-deep-sea-volcanoes-in-pictures
Two rare loggerhead turtles washed up on the Dutch coast on Saturday, one on the Dishoek beach near Vlissingen and the second at ‘s-Gravenza
Two rare loggerhead turtles washed up on the Dutch coast on Saturday, one on the Dishoek beach near Vlissingen and the second at ‘s-Gravenzande, not far from The Hague. The Vlissingen turtle’ shell was studded with mussels and it is in a severely weakened condition. “Normally they take the mussels off themselves,” Jaap van der Hiele from the Reddingsteam Zeedieren told broadcaster NOS. “The mussels make them increasingly heavy and then it becomes even harder to find food so they weaken even more.” Both turtles have been taken to the Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam, the only place in the country that is equipped to care for sea turtles.
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This is becoming increasingly frequent on the coast of Northern Europe. They have been found in Ireland, the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. These two take the total to five in the last two months in the Netherlands alone. No doubt there are many more who don't make it.
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) — If what doesn't kill you truly makes you stronger, then Titan is the strongest turtle in the ocean. The juvenile Loggerhead turtle has been gashed by a boat propeller, had part of his front flipper bitten off by a shark, and was being attacked by a different shark when two New Jersey fishermen intervened, saved him and called Sea Turtle Recovery, a group that rescues and rehabilitates turtles before returning them to the ocean.
