Moon Turtle Lodge

08/28/2020

Itty bitty gopher tortoise, newly emerged from the egg. This should get our weekend off to a happy start. 🤘😊 🐢
Photo courtesy of Michael Arrants

06/22/2020

The first thing to understand is that box turtles have a profoundly strong connection to the location they are born in. They rarely travel far from where they were hatched. Once they form a connection to these surroundings, they stay there for the duration of their life (if allowed).
Removing a wild box turtle from their home causes stress for them. Box turtles that were born in the wild and were later put into captivity tend to have a much shorter life span. Worse than this; some people take box turtles from their home, and then release them elsewhere into the wild. Box turtles will not simply settle down in a new location if moved. More often than not, they will wander aimlessly; hopelessly trying to fine their old home until they die. It’s not too uncommon for humans to take in box turtles for a few weeks, and then later decide to let them go. It’s best never to remove a box turtle from their home unless you have a good reason. And if you return them to the wild, it must be in the exact same spot you took them from.

Box Turtle Conservation Box turtles have unfortunate seen better days in the wild. Various factors, most of them human-related such as exports for the pet trade and loss of habitat is causing the population of box turtles to dwindle. Because of this, it’s important to know about the threat and wha...

03/01/2020

Chex is a green sea turtle that was rescued after eating a balloon in the ocean. This little sea turtle was found floating and struggling to dive. Make an oc...

02/05/2020

A University of North Florida professor is leading an effort to petition state wildlife regulators to protect diamondback terrapin turtles along Florida’s

01/10/2020

http://justsomething.co/rescue-piglet-and-kitten-become-best-friends-and-their-photos-are-just-adorable/

Laura the piglet and Marina the kitten first met at the Santuario Igualdad Interespecie, an interspecies equality sanctuary for farm animals in Santiago, Chile. Marina was abandoned by her mother because she was sick, weak, and had pus-filled eyes. If no one helped her, Marina would have likely died...

09/13/2019

How neat is this? The differences in the four types of sea turtle hatchlings found in Florida. From left to right: loggerhead, hawksbill, green and leatherback. 🐢💚

09/07/2019

For the first time in more than a century, baby tortoises were born on the Galápagos Islands. Conservationists have worked for decades to make this happen.

08/08/2019

06/21/2019

The problem with plastic in nature and what you can do to help.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/the-problem-with-plastic-in-nature-and-what-you-can-do-to-help?utm_campaign=plastics&utm_medium=email&utm_source=enews-wwf&utm_content=1912c-ed