Making way for turtles in an off-leash dog park
It’s not easy being a turtle in Portland’s biggest off-leash dog park. In the Sandy River Delta Park, just 15 miles out of town, the Sandy River Basin Watershed Council has been busy yanking out non-native, invasive plants and erecting temporary fences — creating safe nesting spots for the yellow-striped reptiles that have lived here for millennia. “This year, our priority is the western painted turtle and, potentially, the western pond turtle if it is present,” said Bill Weiler, the council’s restoration project coordinator. The council has worked to restore this 1,500-acre delta for over a decade and its 2016 painted turtle habitat enhancement and survey project was recently funded by grants from Oregon Wildlife’s Beulah Drake grant program and the Oregon Zoo’s Future for Wildlife program. Click the link to read more about this story…
Watch a kayaker rescue a sea turtle from a fishing net, lots of sea turtle releases, beach erosion concerns and sea turtle death worries all in the Conservation section. Art work, a book and a 5k run all in the Miscellany section.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
Video: Kayakers cut sea turtle free from fishing net off the Spanish coast
Beach Erosion A Concern for Turtle Nesting
Puerto Rico groups prepare for sea turtle nesting season
Over 100 turtles released in river in UP
Olive Ridley turtle hatchlings released
Conservation eludes Olive Ridley Turtles
Death of turtles: vet varsity to take up study
Crime & Punishment
Man ‘steals TURTLE at pet shop by pocketing it when he thinks nobody is watching’
Miscellany
Sea Turtle Art
Local Author to Read Her Turtle Book in Lahaina
Love a Sea Turtle 5k – April 9, 2016 – River Park North – Greenville, NC
Did You Know…
Thomas Bell, a British Zoologist (1792 – 1880) – He wrote “A Monograph of the Testudinata 1832–1836” which summarized all the world’s turtles, living and extinct at that time. He described the following: Geochelone paradalis, Kinixys spp etc…
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Photo from Oregon Zoo Foundation.
