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Its part of a drive to protect the countrys assets from cultural appropriation and commercialisation. we call it the positive protection, and that is just to protect their traditional knowledge or, in this case, cultural expression from other people using it in a different way and exploiting them. its not black and white, there is a lot of nuances. the use of traditional culture, expressions of knowledge. what is black and white is the threat to its future. the skilled craft is facing competitio...

A low-cost sensor resembling a sea turtle egg and dubbed TurtleSense is enabling enables scientists to monitor turtle nests remotely and predict when hatchlings will emerge.

Rarer than a four-leaf clover, a turtle watch volunteer in Thailand found a two-headed hatchling. Even more unusual, they were still alive. "We encounter this very rarely. This is my first time encountering a two-headed turtle that is still...

German Shepherd Max uses his instincts and training in Indiana to protect his owner, Tina Stikeleather, when she has seizures.

A female 14kg royal turtle, one of a critical endangered species which was released into the wild last year, was caught by a fisherman last week.

A female 14kg royal turtle, one of a critical endangered species which was released into the wild last year, was caught by fisherman last week.

A female 14kg royal turtle, one of a critical endangered species which was released into the wild last year, was caught by fisherman last week. Luckily, she was rescued thanks to the Wildlife Alliance’s local network, according to Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Cambodia.

Credit for the nesting successes go to decades of conservation measures, but threats remain for the endangered and threatened turtles.

A TWO-headed turtle hatchling was found at the Lang Tengah Turtle Watch Conservation Project at Tanjong Jara Resort, Terengganu.

KUALA TERENGGANU: A group of volunteers from Lang Tengah Turtle Watch (LTTW) made an amazing discovery on Tuesday (Aug 30) when they found a newly-hatched dicephalic green sea turtle at a nesting site in Tanjong Jara Resort, Dungun.