(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MARINE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE DIRECTOR, RUBEN ALEMAN, SAYING:"After gathering information and doing necropsies in 2012 in different beaches we observed that 98% of the ...
The turtles, from the Chelonoidis Guntheri species, were born and raised in the Arnaldo Tupiza breeding centre in Isabela Island. Ranging from five to seven years of age, each turtle underwent blood ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Inside Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, an Indigenous Cofán community has since the 1990s carried out an initiative that has contributed to an ...
Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile hybrids to restore the ecosystem.
Marauding Europeans are nothing new to the Galapagos Islands, which long ago were the haunt of English pirates preying on Spanish galleons laden with Inca gold. But Ecuador, which owns the archipelago ...
Almost 200 baby turtles found wrapped in plastic at Ecuador's Ecological Airport, were saved. They were stuffed in a suitcase and were being trafficked. Ten turtles did not survive the ordeal. Quick ...
Preliminary test results from 115 fishing vessels in Ecuador indicate the use of circle hooks can reduce the number of endangered sea turtles killed in long line fishing operations by as much as 90 ...
SALANGO, Ecuador, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Marine turtles hurt by ocean trash undergo rehab in an animal hospital in southern Ecuador, recovering enough to return to the wild or at least educate the world ...
Preliminary test results from 115 fishing vessels in Ecuador indicate the use of circle hooks can reduce the number of endangered sea turtles killed in long line fishing operations by as much as 90 ...
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