New England cold stun now up to 1,200 turtles!
It is now being reported that the cold stun event that has been taking place this fall in New England is up to 1,200 turtles.
Tracking a Kemp’s named OB1
A nice little write up about Jeff Schmid of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida putting satellite transmitters on Kemp's in Florida.
Sea Turtle Funding Dries Up
Plotkin and Bernardo outline the current funding crisis for research on the endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle.
Papá Tortuga – Un Documentario
Este es un breve documentario sobre Papa Tortuga. Todo de nosotros debería ver esto antes de vamos al México. Papa Tortuga Fernando Manzano from Elise Wilson on Vimeo.
The Herrera film
In 1880 Samuel Garman reported a new species of sea turtle he called Thalassochelys kempii (now called Lepidochelys kempii). A fisherman from Florida named Richard M. Kemp had brought Garman two specimens of a turtle known as the "bastard" turtle because it was thought by locals to be a cross between a loggerhead and green sea ; Garman decided that "in consideration of the great interest Mr. Kemp takes in matters pertaining to natural history, it is most appropriate that the species he has been the means of bringing into notice should bear his name" and thus gave this newly described species the common name of "Kemp's Gulf Turtle". The current generally accepted English common name is "Kemp's ridley"; and it is "tortuga lora" in Garman, from ;Kemp noted to Garman that "The Bastard Turtle are ; We know that they come on the beach to lay in the months…