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Rome: Woman fined for breaking Italy's quarantine to walk her turtle
Carbone said the turtle was "as big as a pizza" but not wearing a leash. But how big is a pizza? Family size?
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Diego the tortoise, father to hundreds and saviour of his species, finally retires
Diego, the giant Galápagos tortoise whose tireless efforts are credited with almost single-handedly saving his once-threatened species, has been put out to pasture on his native island after decades of breeding in captivity, Ecuador’s environment minister said. Diego was shipped out from the Galápagos national park’s breeding program on Santa Cruz to the remote and uninhabited Española.
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With His Species-Saving Mission Complete, Diego the Tortoise Returns Home
When the giant Galapagos tortoise faced extinction, Diego answered the call.
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Thousands of baby turtles released into sea off Bali
More than 10,000 baby turtles were released into the sea off the Indonesian island of Bali, as part of conservationists’ attempts to boost the population of a vulnerable species and promote environmental protection. Conservation groups carried crates each full of dozens of tiny turtles to the island’s Gianyar beach on Friday and encouraged local people and volunteers to line up on the sand and release the hatchlings together.
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Inside the Booming White Sage Black Market
As “smudging” has been appropriated from Native American use, the selling of sage offers a cautionary tale for the wellness economy—one where the intentions of users can be subverted by suppliers, and many sellers have no idea of their impacts.
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Ancient Shellfish Sailed The Seas On The Shells Of Turtles
AsianScientist (Sep. 23, 2020) – Using detailed three-dimensional (3D) scans of fossilized shells, scientists in Japan have identified a species of mollusk that grew on living sea turtles about 100 million years ago. Their findings, which shed light on ancient parasitic or symbiotic relationships, have been published in Palaios.
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Scientists find ‘long-extinct’ giant tortoise alive in the Galápagos
Believed to be extinct for more than a century, a rare species of giant tortoise is in fact still alive. Scientists assumed that the chelonoidis phantasticus had died out more than a century ago. The species is better known as the ‘fantastic giant tortoise’ and is native to the Galápagos Fernandina island.
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