Strandings

Well, Stewie has gone a long way. She’s as far south as the state of Virginia. “It’s been two weeks and she’s travelled over 1,000 kilometres—although definitely not in the direction we’d predict [...]

Today Sobeys became the first national grocery chain in Canada to remove plastic bags from all of its stores. Accidentally ingesting plastic is a threat to the survival of endangered sea turtles, [...]

I am sad to report that Eric, the lovely little Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, has died.

Eric swam for a bit today. We’re not letting him spend too much time in the water at this point so that he conserves what little energy he has.

This turtle is alive! For the second time that we know of in the seventeen years we’ve been working with sea turtles, someone found a stranded hard-shelled sea turtle along a Nova Scotia shore [...]

These two sweeties were in our office this morning: a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle and a loggerhead sea turtle.

As I’ve mentioned before, we get a lot of interesting things in the mail at our office.

I was home, ready to start dinner when the turtle hotline rang. One of my favourite people was on the phone.