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Kemp's RidleyArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml/list.htmlCape Cod Times,BARNSTABLE — The first cold-stunned Kemp's ridley turtle of the stranding season was rescued in local waters yesterday, according to the Massachusetts Ridley's sea turtles make nearly 200 nests on Texas coast - Oct 24, 2008 Scripps News,A record 195 Kemp's ridley turtle nests were found on the Texas coast this nesting season, which runs from April to mid-July. It's the fifth consecutive Loggerhead turtles nest in record numbers - Nov 3, 2008 Daytona Beach News-Journal,But Canaveral's "most exciting news," Stiner said, are the two Kemp's ridley nests. While most turtles nest at night, the extremely rare Kemp's ridley, Study finds all sea turtles are related - Oct 21, 2008 United Press International...flatback, green, hawksbill, loggerhead, Kemp's Ridley, and Olive Ridley. The researchers said their findings form a well-supported phylogenetic tree, Banner year for sea turtles - Nov 3, 2008 Charleston Post Courier,By Bo Petersen (Contact) On a sunny, windy day at the beach last summer, Phil Schneider saw something almost no one else has — a Kemp's ridley, Walk to save the turtles on Cape Cod - Nov 1, 2008 Wicked Local Hopedale,Most years, with the first real cold snap, endangered Kemp's Ridley, Green and Leatherback sea turtles wash up on the shores of Cape Cod Bay in significant State's beaches draw record loggerhead turtle nesting - Oct 22, 2008 Florida Times-Union,Five species of sea turtle are found in waters off the Georgia coast: loggerhead, leatherback, green, hawksbill and Kemp's ridley. SPI Music Festival has Wide Variety of Bands - Oct 27, 2008 KVEO-TV,The festival benefits Sea Turtle Incorporated which helps in protecting the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, and the Surfrider Foundation, dedicated to protecting Sea turtle lighting workshops scheduled Nov. 13 - Oct 22, 2008 Mullet Wrapper,However in the last few years, biologists and volunteers have also documented several nests of the Kemp's ridley, the rarest sea turtle in the world. Marley gets his freedom - Sep 9, 2008 State-Journal.com,She told them it's a Kemp's ridley, a native of the area and a sub-adult of what was once the most endangered species of sea turtles in the world. Clearwater Aquarium Returns 3 Sea Turtles To The Wild - Aug 28, 2008 Suncoast News,Bruno, a Kemp's ridley, was found in a crab trap on St. Petersburg Beach in May and had various abrasions. Kemp's ridley turtles are the most endangered of Releasing turtles at Gumbo Limbo - Sep 12, 2008 WPTV,...rehabilitating the turtles while also showing off some of the other sea creatures, such as bonnet head sharks, other fish and a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle Exploring Grand Cayman - Sep 10, 2008 About - News & Issues,The turtle farm is home to Kemp's Ridley turtles, which are native to the Gulf of Mexico and very rare. They bite, so keep your distance! Only 2 ET counties will see money - Sep 3, 2008 News-Journal.com,..."Some of the funding is going to the coast where they are trying to keep feral hogs from destroying nests of Kemp's ridley sea turtles, while some of it is Proposal plays shell game with sea turtles - Sep 1, 2008 Tallahassee Democrat,...all seven species are listed under the Endangered Species Act. The most at risk is the Kemp's ridley, which has about 7000 nesting females, Bokeelia Island’s first sea turtle nest spotted - Aug 31, 2008 The News-Press,Four - leatherback, Kemp's ridley, hawksbill and green - are endangered. Florida's most common sea turtle, the loggerhead, is threatened. County program gives sea turtle hatchlings a chance - Sep 4, 2008 MiamiHerald.com,Five of seven species of sea turtles are found in Florida: the green turtle, hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead and Kemp's ridley. Man has close encounter with Kemp's ridley - Aug 9, 2008 Daily News - Galveston County,By Frank Bowser GALVESTON — Living at the beach can be exciting at times. There’s the constant roar of the surf, the spectacle of pelicans dive bombing for Kemp's ridley numbers increase, but they face an uncertain future ... - Jul 17, 2008 Houston Chronicle,By HARVEY RICE The meanderings of several Kemp's ridley sea turtles are being tracked by satellite and can be viewed at www.seaturtle.org . Record season for Kemp's ridley turtles along Texas coast - Jul 18, 2008 Beaumont Enterprise,By CHRISTINE RAPPLEYE The dozens of tiny Kemp's ridley hatchlings that scurried into the Gulf of Mexico surf on the Bolivar Peninsula last week helped set a Another turtle hatchling nest found on Bolivar - Jul 25, 2008 Beaumont Enterprise,By CHRISTINE RAPPLEYE First there was just one little Kemp's ridley hatchling that scampered toward the Gulf surf across Allen Runte's path Friday near his Slow recovery for rare turtle (see VIDEO) - Jul 26, 2008 The News Herald,The turtle was identified as a Kemp's ridley turtle and taken to Gulf World, where it was diagnosed with a broken flipper. On Wednesday, the turtle Endangered Sea Turtles Leave Maine For Home - Jul 30, 2008 WCSH-TV,Every year, Kemp's Ridley sea turtles migrate to the coast of Cape Cod from Mexico and some of them get stuck in cold water before they can go back. Public invited to see sea turtles - Jul 29, 2008 Central Maine Morning Sentinel,By Deirdre Fleming Portland Press Herald Staff Writer July 29, 2008 12:12 PM Come and meet the four highly endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles that were The Round and the Restless - Aug 1, 2008 Corpus Christi Caller Times,Daisy, who is about 20 and a Kemp's ridley, was scanned because she stopped eating. Several hundred eggs were seen packed inside her. Sea turtles get a new home at Texas State Aquarium - Jul 27, 2008 Dallas Morning News,Tortuga Cay is a lagoon habitat with above- and below-water areas where visitors can watch Kemp's ridley, hawksbill and green sea turtles. Turtle nests a record in Georgia - Aug 6, 2008 Savannah Morning News,Five species of sea turtle are found in waters off the Georgia coast: loggerhead, leatherback, green, hawksbill and Kemp's ridley. Report nest problems to help turtles - Jul 22, 2008 StarNewsOnline.com,The leatherback, loggerhead, Kemp's Ridley, hawksbill, green and olive sea turtles are listed as threatened or endangered by the National Endangered Species Last turtle hatchling release of year expected this week - Jul 30, 2008 Corpus Christi Caller Times,The eggs of the final 10 Kemp's ridley sea turtle clutches this mating season are beginning to shift the sands covering them. Turtle caregivers are hearing Rescued sea turtles survive hurricane Dolly - Jul 25, 2008 WBIR-TV,The most precious are the Kemp's Ridley turtles. Their eggs were collected from the beach in an effort to save the rare species. The season's first nesting Kemp's ridley turtle has come ashore. - Apr 14, 2008 Brownsville Herald,The Kemp's ridley turtuls have come to the beaches of South Padre Island for thousands of years to lay their eggs in the warm sand. Newest art added to sculpture garden at Center for Arts - Apr 16, 2008 Rockport Pilot,Sculptor Leo Osborne, who was present, created a rendition of the Kemp's Ridley turtle. The piece is a bronze cast from burl wood. The Kemp's Ridley sea Defenders say Florida has Turtle Troubles - Apr 11, 2008 Student Operated Press,Bay County to reduce the impact the Panama City beach renourishment project will have on loggerhead, green, leatherback, and Kemp's ridley sea turtles. Year's first ridley turtle makes a nest - Apr 13, 2008 Corpus Christi Caller Times,By Mike Baird (Contact) CORPUS CHRISTI — The first Kemp's ridley sea turtle nest on the Texas coast for 2008 was documented Saturday on South Padre Island. PFC Pollutant Harming Loggerhead Turtles, Could Also Signal Danger ... - 22 Feb 2008 Science Daily (press release)Perfluorinated compounds in the plasma of loggerhead and Kemp's Ridley sea turtles from the southeastern coast of the US Environmental Science and Eight endangered sea turtles arrive at UNE's Marine Animal ... - Jan 30, 2008 Media Newswire (press release),BIDDEFORD, Maine - Seven Kemp's ridley turtles and one green sea turtle arrived on Jan. 25, 2008 from the New England Aquarium in Boston to the University Turtle Center is Jekyll Island's newest attraction - Feb 19, 2008 Atlanta Journal Constitution,The young turtles, which were dehydrated and malnourished, included five Kemp's Ridley and two green sea turtles. The center hopes to release them this Ailing sea turtles arrive for treatment - Jan 30, 2008 MaineToday.com,The rehabilitation center is now treating seven Kemp's Ridley sea turtles and one Green sea turtle. The turtles migrate south to warmer waters in the winter Vacationers save a life - Feb 2, 2008 State-Journal.com,At the rescue center, the Witts learn that the Kemp's ridley sea turtle is a native of the area, and a sub-adult of the most endangered species of sea Oceans Of Hope Event To Aid Injured Marine Animals - Feb 20, 2008 Suffolk Life Newspapers,An all-volunteer staff currently is tending to two harp seals, four harbor seals, one gray seal pup, three Kemp's ridley sea turtles and five Atlantic green One boy takes action to help save sea turtles - Feb 7, 2008 KeepMEcurrent.com,Ursula, one of seven Kemp's ridley turtles being cared for by the staff t the Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center at the University of New England, Turtles Expected To Wash Up On British And Irish Beaches - Feb 8, 2008 MyFox Washington DC,Fifteen have appeared in the last few weeks, including Loggerhead, Leatherback and Kemp's ridley turtles. So far the only survivors are two Loggerheads, Musick honored for lifetime opus - Feb 4, 2008 William and Mary News,...patterns and wintering areas, shows that Chesapeake Bay is one of the most important nursery areas for Loggerhead and Kemp's Ridley sea turtles. Factory Outlet Mall to be redone; The dream of a Cape Verdean ... - Jan 31, 2008 Cape Cod Today,Seven Kemp's-Ridley turtles and one green sea turtle were brought to the University of New England's Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center on Friday from the US groups seek protection for loggerhead turtles - Nov 14, 2007 Reuters UK,Of the six sea turtle species in US waters, the hawksbill, leatherback, Kemp's Ridley and green are listed as endangered and the Olive Ridley and loggerhead Turtle stranding season begins with three forced ashore - Nov 12, 2007 Cape Cod Times,A green turtle and a Kemp's ridley turtle, the world's most endangered turtle species, were rescued from Chapin Beach in Dennis. A second Kemp's ridley was Warm weather delays arrival of sea turtles on Cape - Nov 12, 2007 Boston Globe,Ninety percent of the turtles that wash up are Kemp's-Ridley turtles, an endagered species, said Tony lacasse, an Aquarium spokesman. The other gulf coast - Nov 2, 2007 Houston Chronicle,...far from pristine but at least offers a vital habitat for fish, migratory birds, and rare and endangered species, such as the Kemp's ridley sea turtle. Loggerhead turtle nesting crashes 50 Percent in Florida - Nov 15, 2007 Wildlife Extra,There are some success stories, especially the Kemp's ridley turtle. read the latest report by clicking here. Nesting throughout Florida has declined by Remarks by the First Lady at a Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center ... - Nov 15, 2007 PR-USA.net (press release),These sea turtles are on the threatened and endangered species list, including the Kemp's Ridley Turtle, which is the world's most endangered turtle. Activists intensify campaign to save turtles - Sep 25, 2007 The Freeport News,...of the seven species of sea turtles are found in Bahamian waters; these are the Loggerhead, Green, Hawksbill, Leatherback and Kemp's Ridley turtles. 1500 Baby Sea Turtles Returned To Sea - Oct 12, 2007 Central Florida News 13|,However three of the turtles are Kemp's Ridley turtles, an endangered species. "The Kemp's Ridleys are extremely rare. It was great to see them. 1200 Baby Turtles Returned To Sea After Washing Onshore - Oct 12, 2007 WFtv.com,The hatchling green, loggerhead and rare Kemp's ridley turtles washed ashore during rough surf caused by an off-shore tropical system. 4 parks in Texas eligible for funding - Oct 16, 2007 Fort Worth Star Telegram,And Padre Island National Seashore ... would re-establish a nesting colony for the Kemp's ridley sea turtle -- the world's most endangered sea turtle New Batch Of Turtles Washes Up Along Coast - Oct 15, 2007 WESH.com,The young turtles are predominately loggerheads with a few green turtles and one rare Kemp's Ridley in the bunch. Once again turtle advocates, beach patrol Remarks by the First Lady at the National Park Foundation ... - Oct 15, 2007 Business Wire (press release),And Padre Island National Seashore, Centennial Challenge resources would re-establish a nesting colony for the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle -- the world's most Alligator Point residents concerned about beach renourishment - Oct 6, 2007 Tallahassee Democrat,...that he says is important for hundreds of species of marine life including Kemp's Ridley sea turtles, horseshoe crabs, Gulf sturgeon and sand dollars. Turtles released into Indian River Lagoon help iron out 'fine line' - Sep 24, 2007 TCPalm,Attracted by tantalizing tidbits such as squid, sea turtles — from loggerheads to Kemp's ridley — dive and swallow the bait, hook and all. Scientists say Kemp's ridley sea turtles making comeback - Aug 11, 2007 Houston Chronicle,2007 AP GALVESTON, Texas — Scientists say they are seeing the beginning of a resurgence of Kemp's ridley sea turtles, on the brink of extinction 20 years Researchers rescue endangered turtle hatchlings from busy beach - Aug 8, 2007 Houston Chronicle,Last year, the laboratory recorded 10 Kemp's Ridley nests in Galveston. Kemp's Ridley sea turtles have been on the endangered species list since 1970. Rescuing a sea turtle named Ed - Jul 25, 2007 Reuters South Africa,The group, Sea Turtles Inc., focuses on protecting the nests and hatchlings of the endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle but also rescues other stranded or Endangered turtle sets off with satellite transmitter - Aug 14, 2007 Beaumont Enterprise,By CHRISTINE RAPPLEYE, The Enterprise McFADDIN BEACH - Tallulah waved its flippers and tossed its head as Erin Seney held the struggling Kemp's ridley sea Sea turtles make comeback on Texas coast - Aug 11, 2007 Earthtimes.org11 Turtle patrols on the beaches around Galveston, Texas, are tracking what appears to be a comeback of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle. Endangered turtles hatch on Galveston beach - Aug 8, 2007 Houston Chronicle,But four of the endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle hatchlings lagged. They've been placed at the federal Fisheries Service Galveston lab until they're Turtle release planned today - Jul 24, 2007 Corpus Christi Caller Times,Padre Island National Seashore officials are planning to release Kemp's ridley sea turtle hatchlings at 6:45 am today. So far this year, 128 Kemp's ridley Sea turtle nesting period continues - Aug 15, 2007 The News Herald,The endangered leatherback and Kemp's Ridley sea turtles also have nested on neighboring beaches. So far this year, there have been 13 sea turtle nests on 4000 sandwiches may be contaminated - Aug 9, 2007 Dallas Morning News (subscription),GALVESTON – Four endanged Kemp's Ridley sea turtles, stuck in the sand after they hatched, were rescued by the federal Fisheries Service Galveston Morning Roundup: Ducking responsibility edition - Aug 9, 2007 Houstonist,Born on the beach: Dozens of endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles hatched in the sand on a Galveston beach Monday morning â€� right underneath a sign [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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