By Herp News Today, for the first time, sharks and rays have won the vote for better protection under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), the world’s regulating body on trade in threatened species. Five shark species and the world’s manta rays, which includes two species, have received enough votes to be […]

By Herp News If you’ve been to a Georgia or Florida beach in recent years, you’ve likely seen the signs to leave sea turtles alone. Granted, you may not have seen the nighttime migration of the sea turtle , but the signs underscore the very reason why such sightings are rare. Go to Source …read […]

By Herp News The nine-year-old reptile , called Mr Stubbs (pictured), was left unable to swim and faced a life on land before reptile experts in Phoenix, Arizona, created a new high-tech tail out of latex and silicone. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The nine-year-old reptile , called Mr Stubbs (pictured), was left unable to swim and faced a life on land before reptile experts in Phoenix, Arizona, created a new high-tech tail out of latex and silicone. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Turtle Bay Exploration Park’s board last week announced it will ask a judge to overrule the California Department of Industrial Relations, which has said it must pay the prohibitively expensive prevailing wage on construction of a proposed four-star Sheraton hotel. Trade unions that had fought for the prevailing wage determination immediately doubled […]

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By Herp News Action is being taken to help the protect the rarest lizard in the UK – the sand lizard – ensuring their new habitat in north Wales does not get overtaken by non-native vegetation. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A group of prominent conservation groups have joined an alliance of African states in calling on CITES to ban the trade in wild cheetah for the pet trade. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

At the 2013 CITES convention in Bangkok, going on now, three U.S. and 44 Asian turtle species were given additional international protections. From the BBC: Proposals on a large number of Asian freshwater turtles and tortoises and other species popular with pet owners were accepted by the government negotiators meeting in the Thai capital. Some […]

By Herp News A new report released by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that poachers have killed a staggering 62 percent of Africa’s forest elephants in the last decade. The insatiable demand for elephant ivory hails mainly from China and Thailand, which is ironically hosting this year’s CITES (CoP16) meeting. The meeting will continue until […]

The bad news about the future of reptiles and amphibians just keeps coming. From ScienceDaily: Climate change could see dozens of lizard species becoming extinct within the next 50 years, according to new research published today. The often one-directional evolutionary adaptation of certain lizard species’ reproductive modes could see multiple extinctions as the global temperature […]

By Herp News In 1853 Edward Frederick Kelaart, a physician and naturalist, collected a strange frog on the island of Sri Lanka then a British colony known as Ceylon. The specimen was a large shrub frog (about 2 inches or 5.5 centimeters long) with black-outlined white specks on lime-green skin. He dubbed it “starry” after […]

By Herp News Climate change could see dozens of lizard species becoming extinct within the next 50 years, according to new research. The often one-directional evolutionary adaptation of certain lizard species’ reproductive modes could see multiple extinctions as the global temperature increases. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News In order for dwindling lion populations to survive in Africa, large-scale fencing projects may be required according to new research in Ecology Letters. Recent estimates have put lion populations down to 15,000-35,000, a massive drop from a population that was thought to be around 100,000 in 1960. The worsening plight of lions […]

In Florida, when the environment got out balance, the government decided to license hunters to slaughter snakes (and blows it, but that’s another story). In India, when environmental degradation resulted in the deaths of snakes, at least one man decided to restore the stripped tree cover that had once shielded them from the blazing sun. […]

By Herp News Scientists have revealed in a new study, for the first time, the presence of the pathogenic chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in amphibians sampled in Singapore. And the American bullfrog may be a central player in the spread of the disease. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News When the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park received a $1 million gift to build a new reptile house last year, it presented the state with a unique situation. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Climate change could see dozens of lizard species becoming extinct within the next 50 years, according to new research. The often one-directional evolutionary adaptation of certain lizard species’ reproductive modes could see multiple extinctions as the global temperature increases. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county’s very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes ” Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

The American Pet Products Association (APPA) released its he 2013-2014 National Pet Owners Survey, and found pet ownership in the United States is at an all-time high, with reptile ownership on the rise. From KHOU.com: While the number of households owning a pet has increased in all categories from the last survey, the proportion of […]

By Herp News NEW YORK and VALHALLA, N.Y., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach , leader in gaming audio, in partnership with Major League Gaming (MLG) , the world's largest eSports league, is making its full … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News While a new study warns that up to 100M sharks are killed annually, there are signs out of China that demand for shark fin may be on the decline. A study published last week in the journal Marine Policy estimated shark deaths at 100 million in 2000 and 97 million in 2010, […]

By Herp News THE fossilised remains of a new species of lizard that lived 125 million years ago have been discovered in Spain. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News More than 60 percent of Africa’s forest elephants have been killed in the past decade due to the ivory trade, reports a new study published in the online journal PLOS ONE. The study warns that the diminutive elephant species — genetically distinct from the better-known savanna elephant — is rapidly heading toward […]

Researchers have discovered fossils in Panama of species that may be the missing link between North and South American crocodilians. From LiveScience.com: The skulls belong to two new species of ancient crocodilians (a group that today contains alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gharials) that lived about 20 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. These new […]

By Herp News The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is often hailed by scholars and conservationists as the most effective international environmental agreement. On March 3, CITES celebrates its 40th anniversary. What accounts for its success? In the following interview, CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon reflects on the convention’s strengths and weaknesses. Go […]

By Herp News Yesterday, Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, committed to ending the ivory trade in her country. Her announcement came during the opening of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Bangkok, which seeks to regulate trade in biodiversity across borders. Wildlife groups say that Thailand’s […]

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Sometime in the late 1600s the world’s last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath passed by the last […]

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thousands of house fires are started each year by clothes dryers clogged with lint, but can an infomercial product called the Lint Lizard help reduce a fire risk? Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The numbers are staggering — more than 4,600 sea turtle nests in 2012, the nests doubling in two years, three straight years of thousands of nests laid along the coast. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News CHAPEL HILL — A University of North Carolina paleontologist and others will unveil a 12-foot-long skeletal reconstruction of a prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found in a quarry in Durham. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile ocean trek from the U.S. West Coast to breeding grounds in Indonesia, could go extinct within 20 years as its population continues to plummet, scientists say. Read more… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News When the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meets from March 3-14 in Bangkok for its 16th Conference of Parties (CoP16), elephants and rhinos will be at the top of the agenda. While there are no proposals to open up trade in either elephant ivory […]

Alice Cooper needed a python for his stage performance in Switzerland later this month. When concert organizers reached out to the Lausanne Vivarium for help, they found out the reptile center was in danger of closing due to lack of funds. From The Local, an English-language Swizz newspaper: The Caprices Festival decided it could lend […]

By Herp News CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A University of North Carolina paleontologist and others will unveil a 12-foot-long skeletal reconstruction of a prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found in a quarry in Durham. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links