Mercy Vaughn crouches over a young tortoise peeking out from its burrow near a creosote bush in California’s Mojave Desert. The area is home to rare species, including the threatened desert tortoise. But a giant solar plant is under construction in the vast wilderness area. To help save the animal, the company building the plant, BrightSource Energy, had to agree to a lot of conditions, including reptile relocation. |  |
 | La costa de Doñana ha registrado este año 2010 la mayor mortandad de tortugas marinas desde que se tiene registro en el Espacio Natural, de modo que se han cuantificado 80 varamientos de quelonios en lo que va de año, según ha informado a Europa Press el director del Parque Nacional de Doñana, Juan Carlos Rubio. Según Rubio, la mayoría de los ejemplares que han perdido la vida este año en las playas de Doñana, concretamente 73, pertenecen a tortuga boba (‘Caretta caretta’), una especie en peligro de extinción con la que la Consejería de Medio Ambiente lleva un proyecto de reintroducción en el Parque de Cabo de Gata-Níjar con ejemplares procedentes de Cabo Verde. |
An international team of Mycologists and Ecologists studying Atlantic sea turtles at Cape Verde have discovered that the species is under threat from a fungal infection which targets eggs. The research, published in FEMS Microbiology Letters , reveals how the fungus Fusarium solani may have played a key role in the 30-year decline in turtle numbers. Leer más.
The non-venomous royal pythons were rolled up in socks and taped to his torso. Ver foto.
 | Wildlife smugglers will do just about anything for a quick buck, including sneaking a live predator onto an airplane with no regard for the risk to the animal or fellow passengers. This illegal activity reached a devastating and absurdist extreme recently when a man reportedly smuggled a live crocodile onto a plane departing from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The crocodile got loose, the crew and passengers panicked, and the plane crashed, killing 20 people. |
