Spawning Season News Today

Conservation Officers located and seized two protected live western painted turtles from a Kelowna man who had pilfered them for a private pond on his property.

Conservation Officers located and seized two protected live western painted turtles from a Kelowna man who had pilfered them for a private pond on his property.

Authorities have decided to close off a beach in Hawaii for a week to give way as cauliflower coral spawning season starts. Read more here.

Endangered whale shark fins were found smuggled into a shipment sent via Singapore Airlines to Hong Kong in May, activist group Sea Shepherd Global announced. The fins from the endangered species were hidden within legal fins in a 989 kilogram shipment that traveled from Colombo, Sri Lanka through Singapore to Hong Kong.