Rare turtles up for sale along with Malaysian island
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MALACCA, Malaysia  - For sale: a plain little island, overgrown by shrubs, offering a scrap of beach and sitting in one of the world's busiest sea lanes.
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A surge in demand for exotic freshwater turtles and tortoises in Southeast Asia is fuelling rampant illegal trade in the animals in Indonesia, wildlife experts warned Tuesday.
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A survey of the world's oceans is turning up more than two new species of fish a week and revealing huge trans-ocean migration routes by creatures from turtles to tuna, scientists say.
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Hundreds of endangered sea turtles have been found dead along Bangladesh's coast in the past two weeks, triggering concerns about pollution and local fishing practices, an official said Thursday. A team of four scientists has launched an investigation into the deaths of the olive ridley turtles, said Jafar Ahmed, a top official in the government's marine fisheries department.
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The first ever photo of a Sumatran rhinoceros in the wild offers concrete proof that the rare animals are living on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, conservationists announced.
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State conservation officials have proposed setting a 10-week hunting season for snapping turtles, while establishing both size and bag limits to protect the reptile that was named the state turtle last year.
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By Pugh, Nicole  On the Big Island of Hawaii, the black ind beach at Punalu'u in the rural 'district of Kau is renowned as much for its dramatic beauty as it is for the giant sea turtles that return each year to nest there.
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Scientists have discovered at least 52 new species of animals and plants on the southeast Asian island of Borneo since 2005, including a catfish with protruding teeth and suction cups on its belly to help it stick to rocks, WWF International said Tuesday.
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Next Thursday, Hugh Edmeades of Christie's auction house will bring down the gavel in Monaco's famed Oceanographic Museum and Aquarium. When he closes the bidding, a sinuous shark recently discovered thousands of miles away in Indonesian waters will have a new scientific name. And hundreds of tho...
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BORNEO Scientists have found at least 52 new species of animal and plant in Borneo in the past year. WWF International said its finds included two tree frogs and 30 fish species, including a fish which is the world's second-smallest vertebrate, and a catfish with an adhesive belly.
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TERENGGANU : Malaysia has gazetted 60 hectares of land off the east coast state of Terengganu to help conserve the dwindling number of endangered sea turtles.
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Sea turtles are spawning in record numbers along Mexico's Pacific coast this year, thanks largely to stepped up protection against poachers, the nation's environmental watchdog said on Wednesday.
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Scientists tracked a leatherback turtle that swam from Indonesia to Oregon and back to Hawaii in an epic 13,000-mile search for food Â research they hope will boost international efforts to save the endangered species.
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Export trade threatens snappers, conservationists claim Conservation groups have warned that Texas's unprotected turtle species are at risk from unrestricted collection of snappers destined for Chinese gourmets, Reuters reports.â¦
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  May 30--HULETTS LANDING -- To a northern map turtle basking in the sun on the Lake George shoreline, that shape moving slowly in the water could just be an old log. Only at the last minute does it become clear -- it's Karen Robbins.
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Experts think they've solved the mystery of what has been killing sea turtles in the Indian Ocean at the peak of their nesting season.
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By Steve Connor  Thousands of species of marine animals have been discovered by a team of biologists investigating the rich ocean wildlife living around the Philippine island of Panglao.