Greenpeace is calling on the New Zealand Government to urgently regulate commercial fisheries, following a new report that shows they caught 58 protected sea turtles in the last year alone.
The Mascot for the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara, Solomon Islands has been revealed...The Mascot for the 2023 Pacific Games is a Turtle. A naming competition for the mascot will open soon and schools are encouraged to take part.
Local fisherman JinNam Hopotoa went spearfishing last Monday around the coastal areas of Alofi bay and he had an unique encounter with a very fragile-looking turtle. It’s not often that the people of Niue are able to have an encounter with a turtle due to its rarity.
Humanity is quickly crossing critical planetary boundaries that threaten sea turtle populations, their ecosystems and, ultimately, the “safe operating space” for human existence.
In collaboration with Utrecht University (Netherlands), Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) and the University of Queensland, the researchers developed a virtual turtle model to simulate cadmium uptake and its effects over a turtles' lifetime.
Drones are set to fly new missions over Pacific atolls, aiming to replicate their coup in the Galápagos archipelago earlier this year by eradicating invasive rats endangering the survival of indigenous wildlife.
In a stunning achievement in the protection of the marine environment, a record 13,000 hatchlings of endangered turtle species have been released off the idyllic Conflict Islands in a project supported by the guest funded P&O Pacific Partnership.
The hawksbill turtle found dead in waters off Pulau Hantu earlier this month had been so tightly bound by a drift net that the man who freed the carcass found the animal's head severed from its body.
We’re now in the middle of nesting season for Hawaiian sea turtles, which runs from April to September. After a historically busy season last year, conservation agencies are calling on the public to keep them safe. The U.S.
Research scientist Jennifer Lavers has spent weeks sifting through the world's waste on two remote sets of islands — and what she has found could have alarming consequences for wildlife. In 2017, many were shocked to learn the shores of uninhabited Henderson Island in the South Pacific