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This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on Feb. 28, 2014 and cumulativ
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Saving the turtles
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Taking part in the Seatru Turtle Volunteer Programme has made a conservation convert of Lidiana Rosli
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Start of sea turtle nesting season in FL
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Final preparations are complete for the start of what could be a record-setting sea turtle nesting season in south Florida. Those preparations come with new warnings for humans.
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Saving the turtles
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Taking part in the Seatru Turtle Volunteer Programme has made a conservation convert of Lidiana Rosli
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Tortoise rustling leads to drastic measures to prevent animals going extinct
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Tortoise rustling leads to drastic measures to prevent the animals being driven out of existence
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South Africa loses nearly 150 rhinos to poachers so far this year
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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 on the planet, but the populations have been hit hard by poachers in recent years seeking rhino horn.
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Palm oil plantations allegedly poison seven Critically Endangered elephants in Sumatra
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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 poisoned in revenge for disturbing illegal palm oil plantations inside the park.
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Herp Video of the Week: Snack Time!
Check out this video “Snack Time,” submitted by kingsnake.com user boa2cobras.
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To Save Endangered Tortoises, Conservationists Deface Their Shells
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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.
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To Save Endangered Tortoises, Conservationists Deface Their Shells
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.
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Turtle pests spotted in Taupo
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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
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Birds of the Serengeti – book review
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 guidebook for the broader non-scientific community.
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Two Texas salamanders placed on federal threatened species list
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 animals while preserving development opportunities. The full impact of the decision won’t be clear until the Fish and Wildlife service sets rules for how the salamanders will be protected, according to a report in the Austin American-Statesman.
In the case of the Georgetown salamander, the agency may allow local Georgetown’s local protections to remain in place. Those regulations prevent development within 80 meters of a salamander site and within 50 meters of a spring as well as limited development up to 300 meters upstream. The city passed those rules in December hoping to fend off federal protection, the Statesman report said. If the federal agency decides the local ordinances are sufficient, local developers won’t need a federal permit for building.
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Disoriented turtle takes a walk along the Esplanade
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A TURTLE has been spotted wandering down the Esplanade and has surprised afternoon walkers in Hervey Bay.
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Invasive lizard taking over habitat in Florida
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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.
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Large, invasive lizard is taking over parts of Florida
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Wildlife officials say people buy them as pets, then release them in preserves.
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Climate change causes high but predictable extinction risks
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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 to the US has concluded that climate change may not be fundamentally different from other extinction threats in terms of identifying species in danger of extinction.
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Ninth Sea Turtle fest Saturday at Gumbo Limbo
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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.
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Hotel owner Eric Goode hosts second annual Turtle Ball
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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…
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Peru Park Sets Record for Reptile, Amphibian Biodiversity
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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.
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Snake find in Galapagos sets off alarm bells
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 Channel, off Santa Rosa parish.
After reviewing the photograph published to the ministry’s website, kingsnake.com staff members agree that the snake appears to be a member of the Lampropeltis triangulum group, known as commonly as milk snakes. Possibly a member of the micropholis subspecies, found natively in Ecuador and known as the Equadoran milk snake, little has been published on the sub-species, and few specimens or even photographs exist.
As milk snakes are not known to be native to the Galapagos, it is most likely that the snake arrived as a stowaway and slipped through the Galapagos quarantine programs. If so, according to historical record, this would be the first confirmed case of snake introduction to the Galapagos Islands. But there is also the slim chance that the snakes are native to the island, their presence being unknown and unrecorded for all these years.
The Ministry of Environment, through the Galapagos National Park (GNP) and the Agency for the Regulation and Control of Biosecurity and Quarantine for Galapagos (ABG), has established an action plan to monitor the area finding and determine the possible origin.
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Escaped tuatara found outside New Zealand sanctuary
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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.
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Lady Gaga gets bitten by venomous primate, sparking outrage over loris trafficking
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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, according to loris expert Anna Nekaris, who says that slow lorises have become increasingly endangered worldwide by the illegal pet trade after people have seen them on YouTube videos.
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John Cornyn Is Running Against a Racist, a Turtle-Hater, and a Non-Voter
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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 percent, despite having a half dozen challengers. Chris Mapp Mapp and Sen. Ted Cruz …
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Four alligators in Missouri car crash
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 man and his wife who were in the car pulling the alligators were injured in the wreck. Police say the animals remained inside.
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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 man and his wife who were in the car pulling the alligators were injured in the wreck. Police say the animals remained inside.
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Vybz Kartel Murder Trial Resumes With Closing Arguments
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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. Defense attorney Miguel Lorne will make his final argument to the jury this …
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Bog turtle is slowing down Gradyville Rd. Bridge project
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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.”
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Coal ash spill blamed for turtle deaths in Virginia
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 about two feet out of the water. And the other turtle was located about where that tree is [by the boat ramp] about two feet up out of the water on the bank. And he was on his back. The other one was on his belly,” explained Lawson.
Jenny Edwards is a program manager with the Dan River Basin Association.
“We have heard some reports that turtles appear to be crawling up on the banks and dying,” she told FOX8.
Edwards added, “Turtles should be hibernating this time of year. It’s cold. They hibernate down in the mud. The fact that they’re crawling up on the bank and dying, even if it’s not in mass numbers… It’s highly unusual.”
She emphasized, “Even though we can’t directly link it to coal ash, this is exactly the sort of thing we expected to start seeing.”
Residents can report dead wildlife in and near the river at this link; more information here.
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Why are the tropics so rich with life?
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 that species richness increases as one moves toward the equator. This holds true for nearly every animal group, including micro-organisms, marine invertebrates, insects, amphibians, birds and mammals. But why is this?
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Turtle Exhibition To Mark Visit Malaysia Year 2014
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KUALA TERENGGANU, Feb 24 (Bernama) – The Terengganu Fisheries Department is holding a turtle exhibition to draw tourists during Visit Malaysia Year 2014.
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Sabah landowners boost turtle conservation
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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 as well as the hawksbill turtle on land owned by Amiril Sayuti …
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Sabah turtle conservation: 3 landowners allow eggs collection
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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.
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Nearly 100 sightings of exotic lizard in eastern Hillsborough County
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?? 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.
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If Indonesia can’t protect its orangutans, why doesn’t it just ‘sell’ them?
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.
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Legal harvest of marine turtles tops 42,000 each year
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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 take of turtles has continued legally in many regions and countries, often for traditional coastal communities to support themselves or small-scale fisheries supplying local markets with meat, and sometimes shell. The fisheries are an important source of finance, protein and cultural identity, but information can be scarce on their status — despite often being listed as one of the major threats to turtle populations.
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Lizard by luisrguez
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As it was a model, allowed me take photos from every angle.
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Indonesia pledges to protect manta rays
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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 enjoy full protection throughout their entire life cycle. The decree explicitly extends that protection to all parts of their body.
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Herp Video of the Week: Arizona Field Herping!
Check out this video “Arizona Field Herping,” submitted by kingsnake.com user smetlogik.
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Lizard Field School
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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 enduring the blazing sun and harsh desert conditions that make life …
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