It reaches up to 60cm in length and weighs up to 20-37kg. Most Asian turtles and tortoises are sexually diamorphic, with the female being up to 10cm larger than the male. Turtles and tortoises move ...

Marine turtles have been in our oceans for over 100 million years. They’re brilliant navigators, swimming hundreds or thousands of kilometres between feeding and nesting grounds. But they face lots of ...

Despite decades of conservation efforts, six of the world's seven species of marine turtle are still in danger of extinction, WWF, the conservation organization, warned in a new publication issued ...

Six of the world’s seven species of sea turtle live in the waters around Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago country. WWF Indonesia said the scale of the seizures in January indicated ...

A group known as the 'Dau ni Vonu' (Guardians of Turtles), have been working alongside the WWF to count and protect the turtle nests. This group even includes former poachers! By the end of the ...

It also offers feeding, breeding and nesting grounds for seabirds, sea turtles and dugongs (a marine mammal). Because the island had long been a staple of the local economy, it became overfished and ...