By Herp News Tortoise rustling leads to drastic measures to prevent the animals being driven out of existence         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Since the first of the year, South Africa has lost 146 rhinos to poachers or approximately 2.5 rhinos every day. This is a slight dip from last year’s poaching rate, which hit 1,004 for the whole year or 2.75 a day. South Africa is home to more rhinos than any other country […]

By Herp News Wildlife officials suspect foul play in the deaths of seven Sumatran elephants on the outskirts of Tesso Nilo National Park. Officials stumbled on the corpses of one female elephant, five young males, and one male calf in mid-February. Although the males had their tusks hacked off, the officials suspect the elephant were […]

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By Herp News The ploughshare tortoise's ornate golden shell makes it a popular black market pet. In California, the Turtle Conservancy is trying to give the threatened species a second chance. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The ploughshare tortoise's ornate golden shell makes it a popular black market pet. In California, the Turtle Conservancy is trying to give the threatened species a second chance. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Sightings of red-eared slider turtles in Lake Taupo have prompted a wave of concern from the Waikato Regional Council. Turtle pests spotted in Taupo news, national, turtles, lake taupo Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Birds of the Serengeti: And Ngorongoro Conservation Area by Adam Scott Kennedy may be the best birding book available covering the general safari region for northwestern Tanzania and southern Kenya. Filled with firsthand accounts, excellent photographs, and broken down into chapters by habitats, Birds of the Serengeti: And Ngorongoro Conservation Area is […]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it’s placing the Georgetown and Salado salamanders on the threatened species list, despite ongoing opposition from pro-development forces in Texas. From the Austin Business Journal: The salamanders have been a contentious issue for both environmentalists and some community officials, who have struggled over how to protect the […]

By Herp News A TURTLE has been spotted wandering down the Esplanade and has surprised afternoon walkers in Hervey Bay. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Brooks Hays TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 26 (UPI) — Wildlife officials in Florida are setting traps to catch a giant invasive lizard they say is taking over habitat, threatening native and endangered species. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Wildlife officials say people buy them as pets, then release them in preserves. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Judging the effects of climate change on extinction may be easier than previously thought, according to a new article. Although widely used assessments of threatened species, such as the IUCN Red List, were not developed with the effects of climate change in mind, a study of 36 amphibian and reptile species endemic […]

By Herp News With four exhibit tanks to show off, a new Neptune mural and tours of the sea turtle rehab, the city's Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is ready for its closeup on Saturday at the ninth annual Sea Turtle Day Festival. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News The most popular guests at Eric Goode’s annual Turtle Ball at his Bowery Hotel on Sunday night were the reptiles. Red-bellied, short-necked and New Guinea snake-necked turtles, as well as… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News For reptiles and amphibians, southern Peru's Manu National Park is the most diverse protected area on the planet. Deforestation, gold mining and oil and gas drilling are closing in on the buffer zone around the park. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Was a milk snake discovered in the Galapagos? Equador’s Ministerio del Ambiente (Ministry of the Environment) announced that yesterday, a group of citizens from the island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos Islands gave the Rangers a snake so far unidentified, possibly a false coral, that was hit on the road Puerto Ayora – Itabaca […]

By Herp News WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 25 (UPI) — Officials at a New Zealand animal sanctuary said a tuatara lizard found by a woman walking her dog is lucky to be alive after escaping the sanctuary. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Last week, the musical artist, Lady Gaga, was ‘nipped’ by the world’s only venomous primate, a slow loris, in a misguided attempt to use the animal in a new music video. After it bit the musician, the idea of using the primate in the video was dropped. This was just as well, […]

By Herp News The people challenging Senate Minority Leader John Cornyn in the Texas Republican primary next month include: a guy who defends calling immigrants “wetbacks,” a guy known for comparing Sen. Mitch McConnell to a cartoon turtle, and a House member who never votes in primaries. This is why Cornyn is polling above 60 […]

A Missouri car accident involved some unusal cargo: Four alligators. From KMBC.com: KFVS-TV reports two crashes happened in the southbound lanes of Interstate 55 in the southeast Missouri community around 7 p.m. Saturday. Four alligators ranging from 3 feet to 5 feet long were being hauled in a small trailer behind one of the cars. […]

A Missouri car accident involved some unusal cargo: Four alligators. From KMBC.com: KFVS-TV reports two crashes happened in the southbound lanes of Interstate 55 in the southeast Missouri community around 7 p.m. Saturday. Four alligators ranging from 3 feet to 5 feet long were being hauled in a small trailer behind one of the cars. […]

By Herp News The murder trial of Clive “Lizard” Williams has resumed with the defense's closing arguments this week. Along with associates Shawn “Storm” Campbell, Kahira Jones, André St John, and Shane Williams, Vybz Kartel (real name Adidja Palmer) is charged with beating Lizard to death in a home in Havendale over two missing guns. […]

By Herp News Eileen Nelson, an engineer with Stantec Consulting Services Inc., the township’s engineer, told Newtown Supervisors at the last meeting that there has been further delay with the awarding of the contract for the Gradyville Road Bridge project due to “the bog turtle.” Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

Danville, Virg., fisherman Morris Lawson took photos of dead turtles on the banks of the Dan River, and shared them online. They’ve raised a lot of attention to the possible impact of the coal ash spill on wildlife in the area. From WGHP Fox 8: “One turtle was at the dam up on the bank […]

By Herp News Descending the latitudinal ladder to the tropics, you would likely notice a few things: increasingly equivalent stretches of day and night, warmer weather and beachgoers with more intense sunburns. You may also notice an abundance of plant and animal life. Generations of scientists since the days of Darwin and Wallace have observed […]

By Herp News KUALA TERENGGANU, Feb 24 (Bernama) – The Terengganu Fisheries Department is holding a turtle exhibition to draw tourists during Visit Malaysia Year 2014. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia: A private turtle conservation effort off the Sandakan coast got a much needed boost with three landowners allowing the collection of the highly sought-after eggs for conservation. The effort was initiated by the Trekkers Lodge on Pulau Libaran, and would see staff collecting eggs laid by the green turtle […]

By Herp News KOTA KINABALU: A private turtle conservation effort on an island off the east coast of Sandakan district is getting a boost with three landowners allowing the collection of the marine creatures’ eggs from their properties. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News ?? Tegus are native to South America. ?? The tegu's diet includes fruits, vegetables, eggs, insects, cat or dog food, and small animals such as lizards and rodents. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It is obvious that at the moment Indonesia neither has the political commitment nor ability to safeguard its dwindling populations of orangutans. Despite its Presidentially supported Action Plan to stabilize all remaining wild populations by 2017, orangutan habitats in Sumatra and Borneo are disappearing as rapidly as ever. Go to Source …read […]

By Herp News A new study has found that 42 countries or territories around the world permit the harvest of marine turtles — and estimates that more than 42,000 turtles are caught each year by these fisheries. All seven marine turtle species are currently listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The direct […]

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By Herp News In a move signaling their commitment to CITES agreements on international trade of plants and animals, the Indonesian government declared two species of manta ray ‘protected’ under Indonesian law. Decree Number 4/KEPMEN-KP/2014 issued by Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries states that two manta ray species, Manta birostris and Manta alfredi, now […]

Check out this video “Arizona Field Herping,” submitted by kingsnake.com user smetlogik. Submit your own reptile & amphibian videos at http://www.kingsnake.com/video/ and you could see them featured here or check out all the videos submitted by other users! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Student biologists learn the how-to's of  wildlife research by studying the life and death of lizards in Oregon's Alvord desert. For 15 years Dr. Roger Anderson has been leading students on a three-week immersion into lizard ecology and behavior. Students cope with the primitive conditions of life in a desert encampment while […]

I had a Frankie Tail. Worked on it for two days. Down to the final draft. In walks Fate with its gnarly teeth ready to bite me on the butt. Accidental swipe of a thumb over the Touchpad and the whole thing disappeared tagged by Mr Auto-Save. That Frankie Tail was to be was no […]

Peru’s treasured Manu National Park is the world’s top biodiversity hotspot for reptiles and amphibians, according to a new survey published last week by biologists from the University of California, Berkeley, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (SIU-Carbondale) and Illinois Wesleyan University. The park, which encompasses lowland Amazonian rain forest, high-altitude cloud forest and Andean grassland […]

By Herp News A baby loggerhead turtle washed ashore during the recent storms is “extremely fortunate” to be alive, experts say. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Animals of the Serengeti: And Ngorongoro Conservation Area by Adam Scott Kennedy and Vicki Kennedy is an easy-to-use guidebook that is also very readable. The region covered by the book is the Greater Serengeti area bounded in the west by Lake Victoria and the east by Lake Manyara in Tanzania, and in […]