| Date |
Title |
 12 Feb 2010 |
Fiji: Save this lady |
| Intro : Conservationists are pleading for people living along the Coral Coast to spare the life of a green turtle whose movement is being tracked by WWF as she travels through Fiji\'s waters. |
| 12 Feb 2010 |
Indonesia: Padang Beach ‘turtle egg market’ |
| Intro : The trade of turtle eggs at Padang Beach in the West Sumatran capital city has reached worrying levels, with a scientist urging the municipality and the administration to act. |
| 12 Feb 2010 |
‘Black Rose’ wreck, a threat to Olive Ridleys |
| Intro : Environmentalists have expressed serious concern over the safety of Olive Ridley turtles and other marine species in Bay of Bengal due to non-removal of a sunken Mongolian ship. |
| 12 Feb 2010 |
India: Olive Ridley turtles rescued |
| Intro : Two Olive Ridley turtles with damaged flippers were rescued by volunteers of the Sea Turtle Protection Force at Kovalam and Panaiyur beaches. |
| 11 Feb 2010 |
Bangladesh: Marine turtles in danger |
| Intro : Critically endangered marine turtles are regularly hunted and their meat sold openly in village markets around the country’s Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. |
| 11 Feb 2010 |
Australia: Turtle visitor numbers up at Mon Repos |
| Intro : It’s not just the number of nesting turtles that’s gone up at Mon Repos this season. The number of people visiting the turtle rookery near Bundaberg has also been skyrocketing. |
| 11 Feb 2010 |
Olive Ridley turtles have a 13-yr-old friend in Delhi |
| Intro : With the help of his nature club teacher,a youngster from Delhi collected a little sum of money from his school by spreading awareness about the need to conserve sea turtles. |
| 10 Feb 2010 |
Turtle nesting makes Orissa seek ban on missile-testing |
| Intro : The state government of Orissa has lodged a protest with the Central government against launching missiles from a defense facility close to nesting Olive Ridley turtles, from November to May. |
| 9 Feb 2010 |
New Indian port receives first freight handling cargo |
| Intro : The new port of Dhamra on the east coast of India has received a shipment of freight handling cargo. The port has been criticised heavily by Greenpeace as a danger to rare olive ridley turtles. |
| 9 Feb 2010 |
Olive Ridley turtles lay eggs in Devi River mouth of Orissa |
| Intro : Olive Ridley turtles in their annual sojourn to Odisha coast this winter have started laying eggs in Devi river mouth region, after a delay of about two weeks. |
| 9 Feb 2010 |
Poachers of endangered Olive Ridley turtle nabbed |
| Intro : Poachers of an endangered Olive Ridley turtle were caught while carrying cut meat of the marine turtle and remanded to judicial custody. |
| 8 Feb 2010 |
Australia: Tiny turtles start their journey |
| Intro : The tiny loggerhead and green turtles started hatching around mid-January, with the nesting season starting in November. So far this season volunteers have relocated 11,500 eggs. |
| 8 Feb 2010 |
Turtle symposium to be held in Goa, India |
| Intro : India will play host for the first time to an international sea turtle conference (the 30th annual symposium) in Goa from April 27-29. |
| 8 Feb 2010 |
Philippines: Poachers threaten sanctuary |
| Intro : The preservation of the 32,000-hectare Sagay Marine Sanctuary is now being attracted by from neighboring islanders who employ illegal methods to catch fish in the area. |
| 4 Feb 2010 |
Fiji: Migratory cultural icons |
| Intro : Government representatives from the South Pacific gathered to discuss ways to build national capacities for satellite tagging of turtles and to learn more about their behaviour. |
| 4 Feb 2010 |
Australia: Baby turtles rescued after taking wrong turn |
| Intro : Hundreds of baby loggerhead turtles were rescued at Redcliffe, north of Brisbane, after they streamed along a road instead of heading for the ocean. |
| 4 Feb 2010 |
India: Sporadic nesting by Olive Ridleys begins |
| Intro : Sporadic nesting of the Olive Ridley sea turtles started recently at the three major rookeries at Devi river mouth, Rushikulya and Gahiramatha beach. |
| 4 Feb 2010 |
Oman to protect rare species and resources |
| Intro : Oman attaches great importance to maintaining a healthy, clean environment and this focus has increased in direct response to the economic and social advances in the country. |
| 3 Feb 2010 |
Australia: Tides devastate turtle nests |
| Intro : Wild wind and king tides have claimed thousands of loggerhead turtle eggs at Mon Repos Conservation Park. Some 6000 eggs were lost, said the ranger in charge. |
| 3 Feb 2010 |
Fiji: A change of heart |
| Intro : A diver who had captured turtles for 30 years had a change of heart, becoming a conservationist and calling on everyone to lose their taste for turtle meat and stop killing turtles. |
| 2 Feb 2010 |
India: Lights, camera, action. Pack up for Ridleys |
| Intro : An outdoor film shoot on the Bay of Bengal coast at VGP Golden Beach has turned into a wildlife conservation issue with the Fisheries Department |
| 2 Feb 2010 |
Hotter sands a threat to sea turtles |
| Intro : A new study finds that for the world\'s largest population of sea turtles in Australia, blazing hot sands pose the greatest threat to the animals\' breeding success over the long term. |
| 1 Feb 2010 |
Shrimp trawl “excluder” cuts marine bycatch up to 40% |
| Intro : Research has found that up to 90% of what shrimp trawlers haul up from the seafloor is unwanted and often unused. A new excluder device has been found to reduce bycatch by 25-40%. |
