Happy World Turtle Day®! It’s time to shellebrate (as Dean might say)! 😉 American Tortoise Rescue, a nonprofit organization, created this day over 20 years ago to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises and their disappearing habitats around the world. For more than 100 million years sea turtles have covered vast distances across …
Enjoy some fun facts about green sea turtles: They feed on jellyfish and crabs as juveniles. As adults, they eat mostly sea grasses and algae. These creatures weigh an average of 400 pounds! They can swim up to 35 miles per hour. They can be found off the coast of around140 countries, but are still …
Check out the new flyer on my children’s book, Turtle Tube: An Erutuf National Park Novel. It’s shown here as a jpg and also a pdf. Feel free to share!
With the ongoing stress of Covid, wildfires, the upcoming elections, and distance learning, I often catch myself dreaming about green sea turtles. Green sea turtles are known for their grace in the water, their big beautiful shells, and those huge gentle eyes. Those eyes can definitely talk to you! Green sea turtles can weigh over …
Happy World Turtle Day! American Tortoise Rescue, a nonprofit organization, created this day 17 years ago to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises and their disappearing habitats around the world. Turtles are the most endangered group of vertebrates in the world. Of the 356 species of turtles and tortoises worldwide, about 61% of …
