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Tanya Steele is the first female CEO of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) and a name that everyone should know. It's no surprise therefore that she Tanya Steele, CEO of the UK office of WWF, is next in our Women Who Win series, as part of our Earth month guest edit with Ellie Goulding.

The iSimangaliso National Park is Africa’s last remaining nesting site of the world’s largest sea turtle - the leatherback. Researcher Ronel Nel is investigating how migration patterns affect conservation.

Indian government’s development plans for the Andamans may endanger the world’s largest sea turtles The government wants to open Little Andaman and ‘release the area for deployment of strategic assets’. A leatherback sea turtle at a nesting site in the Little Andaman. | Adith Swaminathan/ Mongabay India A 58-page, undated “vision document” for the “sustainable development” of the Little Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal was produced by the NITI Aayog, a thin...

More tiny turtles expected to be stranded on Eastern Cape coast PREMIUM By Madeleine Chaput - 06 April 2021 An unusual number  of juvenile leatherback turtles have washed up between East London and Cape Town since February... This article is reserved for DispatchLIVE subscribers. Get access to ALL DispatchLIVE content from only R45.00 per month. Already subscribed? Simply sign in below. Already registered on HeraldLIVE, BusinessLIVE, TimesLIVE or SowetanLIVE? Sign in with the...

RNZ Sea front in Madang, Papua New Guinea. Photo: RNZI/ Johnny Blades After successfully stopping one sand mining project, Papua New Guinea environmentalists now want the government to tighten the rules around the industry. A Singaporean company, Niugini Sands, last week dropped plans to mine the black sands along the Madang coast, with director, Marcus Ong, saying bad publicity was pivotal in their decision. The environmental group, Mas Kagin Tapani, advocated for the more than 10,000 who liv...

Sea front in Madang, Papua New Guinea. Photo: RNZI/ Johnny Blades A Singaporean company, Niugini Sands, last week dropped plans to mine the black sands along the Madang coast, with director, Marcus Ong, saying bad publicity was pivotal in their decision. The environmental group, Mas Kagin Tapani, advocated for the more than 10,000 who lived in communities along a 38 kilometre stretch of the shoreline in Madang province. They also wanted to ensure breeding grounds for endangered Leatherback Tur...

My favorite thing about my trip to The Florida Keys was our visit to The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, FL. I always considered myself pretty Earth conscience, considered myself to be relatively green. I mean, I recycle, I use metal straws at home, I try not to waste water, I drive an Eco-friendly car, but after visiting The Turtle Hospital, I am a changed woman. There is always more we can do. Im going to really try to use less plastic. I knew sea turtles had issues with plastic and trash in the...

Plume, they are covered with the oil, they have no way of stopping and its game over for them and then theres the giant one-ton leatherback turtles that dive a mile or more deep that are after the giant jelly fish and they, too, are at risk here. this is, its a shame and we dont know how this is going to play out, chris. >> nobody knows at this point. thats a scary prospect. there was what we thought was a bit of good news from the epa yesterday. they had a study that said those chemical dispers...