The second year of the Rafetus breeding program at the Suzhou Zoo is again underway. The male has been basking in shallow water regularly since 18 March and the female since 19 March
On 23 April representatives of the Suhou Zoo, the Changs...
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On 3 July the Suhou staff found a second clutch of 65 eggs. 36 eggs -including 13 broken ones - were removed for artificial incubation and the rest left in the sand beach. However, when Dr. Gerald Kuchling returned to the Zoo he candled all Rafetu...
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A TEAM of surveyors has discovered five specimens of a rare turtle species in the forests of Rakhine State that was last seen in the wild nearly a decade ago.
The team consisted of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation S...
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(Hanoi) January 2009 - Nineteen turtles have been confiscated from the home of a trader including several critically endangered species that are known only to live in Vietnam.
Upon notification of the incident, the HSI-funded ENV Wildlife ...
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Dear all,
The studbook keepers day was a success. Around 30 people (studbook keepers and introduced people) attended. The atmosphere was great and the level of the presentations was very good. Some new studbook keepers introduced themselves ...
August 2009, the General Inspection Service (AID) of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality confiscated 200 young turtles of the species Chrysemys picta belli (Western Painted turtle) from a trader. This species does not appear...
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For the second time there came Geoclemys hamiltonii from Hong Kong, China to the ESF in Europe. At Wednesday 16 September 2009, at 04.45 in the morning arrived at Schiphol, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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By Henk Zwartepoorte, president ESF At the February 2008 meeting of the ESF South East Asia working group the situation regarding Cuora trifasciata DNA research possibilities on European collections (zoos and privates) was discussed. The numbers i...
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Unregulated trade at 10 to 100 times legal levels has caused Southeast Asian Box Turtles almost to vanish from parts of Indonesia, where once they were common, according to a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. By Chris R...
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From 7 - 10 January 2009 the TSA and WCS, in conjunction with the Myanmar Forestry Department, conducted two workshops in Mandalay. A Species Recovery Plan workshop for the Burmese roof turtle, Batagur (Kachuga) trivittata, was followed by a compr...
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Traffic Press Relaese -7jan.2009
The Malayan Box Turtle is disappearing across Malaysia despite a ban on its export, finds a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. The turtles are in high demand in East Asia for thei...
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In een gezamenlijke actie van NBSV en ESF ten behoeve van het beschermingsproject Testudo kleinmanni in Egypte worden thans online T-shirts ten verkoop aangeboden.
De kritische situatie van Testudo kleinmanni (Lortet, 1883) (Egyptische lan...
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De eerste succesvolle kweek van de Bourret's doosschildpad in Nederland is een feit.
Na een incubatieperiode van 93 dagen kroop op 20 juni 2008 een jong uit het ei. Het dier heeft een lengte van 50 mm en weegt 18 gram.
Vanaf begin ...
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At Saturday November 10 the ESF received in ownership 33 Indotestudo elongata, who were confiscated by the Danish Ministry of the Environment, Danish Forest and Nature Agency, CITES Management Authority. This 33 turtles must be managed as a separa...
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The Hindu, CHENNAI
Twenty-six painted-roofed turtles KACHUGA KACHUGA are all set to return to the wild, after they were bred in captivity at the Madras Crocodile Bank.
Three years ago the Uttar Pradesh State Forest Department and t...
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