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Rare Illinois Turtles Making Comeback With Help From Chicago Museum - DNAinfo.com Chicago - March 10, 2016 Twenty years of collaborative efforts between several wildlife organizations are starting to pay off for an endangered turtle hunted by poachers, run over by cars and eaten by a multitude of predators.

In a recent panel on environmental sustainability, Highland Park High School students were credited with saving 90,000 plastic water bottles from landfills, recycling cafeteria grease into biodiesel fuel and building a habitat for endangered turtles.

Get up close and personal with all of our resident turtles as well as several special guest species, and learn about how the Museum is working with the endangered Blanding's Turtle in the Chicago region.

«We are honored to receive an Environmental Merit Award from the New England EPA in recognition of our partnership with the Aquarium to save endangered sea turtles,» Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton said.

-- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / New England Region has honored Mass Audubon and the New England Aquarium with an Environmental Merit Award for their partnership to rescue, rehabilitate, and release endangered sea turtles.

scientists tracked endangered Atlantic Loggerhead turtles with satellite telemetry, illuminating for the first time their migratory journey of thousands of miles.

It culminated in 26 arrests, with more than 400 animals — including endangered turtles and venomous snakes — taken into custody as evidence.

However, with approximately 58 percent of the world's 335 turtle species threatened with extinction, turtles are the most endangered vertebrate group in the world.

WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), in collaboration with Cambodia's Fisheries Administration (FiA) and the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA), released 150 Endangered Asian giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii) hatchlings into their natural habitat along the Mekong River.

The critically endangered hawksbill turtle, with its almond eyes, black spots and hooked beak, rests on the reefs feeding on these sponges while the vulnerable dugong, a flabby mammal with a wide snout and dolphin-esque tail, circles lagoons, feeding on the reef's seagrasses.

Approximately 58 % of the world's 335 turtle species threatened with extinction, which makes turtles the most endangered vertebrate group in the world.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

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Explore the lake by dugout canoe, and watch for endangered river otters, along with side - neck turtles, anacondas, black caimans, and boisterous red howler monkeys — appropriately named for their distinctive cry.

I recently visited CasaMagna Marriott Cancún Resort, where in conjunction with their adjacent property, the JW Marriott have implemented a sea turtle protection and release program that protects and preserves this endangered species.

You will have ample opportunities for snorkeling over colorful reefs and in Turtle Town with Hawaii's endangered green sea turtles and a variety of colorful marine life.

If you're visiting the Yucatan region of Mexico you won't want to miss the chance to go swimming with endangered green sea turtles at Akumal beach.

If you scuba dive or snorkel, then Akumal is worth a visit for a chance to swim with endangered green sea turtles.

In all, five species of endangered sea turtles nest on Tortuguero's beaches, with most of the action happening between July and October.

Life is simple when you wake up on this secluded retreat with a day of snorkelling ahead, followed by a star lit evening carefully watching both green turtles and the endangered loggerhead turtles laying their eggs.

Pak Boulong is a local person who dedicated himself to conserve and start breeding turtles which are endangered and protected animals on the islands, He starts from eggs collected, and after hatching and the turtle babies are old enough and ready to start their new life on the open seas they are released, with many travelers who come to Gili Meno for this special occasion.

Our pristine beaches and coastline teem with life, from endangered sea turtles to seabirds and mollusks.

Guests and owners at Playa Las Tortugas are blessed with the rare opportunity to work alongside veterinarians and biologists of Mexico's National Commission of Protected Areas (CONANP) in protecting endangered Olive Ridley and Hawksbill sea turtles.

The Four Seasons Resort works with the Sea Turtle Conservancy and the Nevis Turtle Group to educate visitors and residents about the importance of protecting endangered sea turtles.

More adventurous travelers may volunteer with the organization for a minimum commitment of two months to aid with hatching and releasing the endangered sea turtles.

Admire beautiful coral teaming with sea - life as well as the friendly, endangered green sea turtles.

The stunning beach of Playa Grande with its pristine shoreline and clear blue sea is home to the endangered Leatherback Sea Turtles that come ashore every year to lay their eggs on the beach.

To that end we took a seven day cruise with Variety Cruises on a motor yacht with 24 other people that visited eight islands seeing not only the everyday life in villages but the dedicated volunteers who live on the outer islands to preserve the giant tortoises, turtles and other endangered species for our children and grandchildren to enjoy in the future.

Snorkel with endangered Green Sea Turtles and colorful tropical fishes!!

To make things easier, we've picked out some of our favourites, from beaches with a serious party scene to remote headlands where endangered turtles come to nest.

Although not in the hotel itself but in one of the villas, we were not impressed with a collection of turtle shells on display — endangered species should not be decorator items.

Watch this first chance encounter with an endangered biofluorescent turtle, taken in the South Pacific.

I was there with Pace University students making a short documentary on efforts to protect endangered sea turtles in an area where the economy revolves around fishing — most of which is done with nets that can also drown sea turtles (sometimes intentionally).

It features the largest seabird gathering site in the world, with more than 14 million birds from 22 species, nearly all of the remaining endangered Hawaiian monk seals, Hawaiian green sea turtles and Laysan albatrosses.

The giant, ancient, endangered turtles, some the size of a Smart Car, have until now only been known to nest in four spots in the United States — with about three dozen females a year laying eggs on beaches along the east coast of Florida and slightly larger nesting populations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Endangered species associated with these ecosystems, including manatees and marine turtles, could also be at risk, along with migratory birds (Government of Seychelles, 2000; Republic of Ghana, 2000; République Démocratique du Congo, 2000).

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The traditional owners are in dispute with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority over the hunting of the now endangered turtle and dugong.