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Philippine Forest Turtle [Species Overview] - All Turtles

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This World Wildlife Conservation Day, we’re celebrating the wild places—and wild relationships—that remind us why protection matters. 🌎💚 Now streaming on PBS! 🌿🐢🐆 On a remote stretch of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, the lush, volcanic landscape meets a dry tropical forest. Two unlikely creatures, the sea turtle and the jaguar, collide with spectacular consequences for their species and their ecosystems. TIRN has supported conservation efforts at this remarkable nesting site for years, helping

This #turtletuesday we shell-ebrate some good news about Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) 🐢 Green turtles have been reclassified from "Endangered" to "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List due to decades of conservation efforts across the globe! Ascension is the seconded largest green turtle rookery in the Atlantic with around 20,000 turtles nesting here each year. For many years turtles were exploited for human consumption but during WW2, a local commander called for their protection as he noted t