Pantestudines

An unconscious caretta caretta turtle that came ashore in the Aegean province of Muğla on March 12 has been saved by locals, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Local walkers noticed the stranded caretta caretta on land in the Yalancıboğaz area of Muğla's Marmaris district, after which they informed the Environmentalist Association of Marmaris.

A passerby looks at a fatally injured loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) on Karathonas Beach near Nafplio, in the northern Peloponnese, on Saturday. The turtle washed up on the beach earlier in the day with multiple injuries across its body, possibly from a boat propellor, in one of several similar incidents reported in the area over the past few weeks.

Greece was found guilty on Thursday by the European Court of Justice of failing to comply with European Union rules concerning the protection of the endangered loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) in the Bay of Kyparissia, in the western Peloponnese.

The young patient writhes on the operating table, kicking its flippers. A team of medical attendants turns it over, revealing an underbelly cluttered with tumors, some as big as golf balls.

Measures to protect sea turtles on Turkish coasts have been successful, allowing thousands of babies to reach the sea. Very few, however, reach old age Thousands of rare turtles have reached the sea on Turkey's coasts thanks to greater conservation efforts by Turkish authorities, according to Forestry and Water Affairs Minister Veysel Ero?lu.

The eggs of loggerhead turtles, or caretta carettas, a species of marine turtle under conservation, have begun hatching on the beaches of southern Turkey

A string of mysterious caretta caretta sea turtle deaths have been noted around Naxos. The thirteenth turtle with stab wounds to its neck this year was found by swimmers at the region of Grotta.

The Naxos Wildlife Protection Fund is calling on local authorities to take action to secure the safety of the protected species against fishermen.

A caretta caretta nesting ground has been discovered in the Milas district of the Aegean province of Mu?la, leading authorities to taken it under protection with hedges.

A caretta caretta, or loggerhead turtle, has been found wounded in a touristic southern province of Turkey. The citizens who discovered the injured turtle made a great effort to ensure its well-being before it could be taken to a rehabilitation center. 

A dead caretta-caretta sea turtle was found off the coast at Petre Beach, Rethymnon, Crete, after being captured in a net. Another nearby sea turtle however was luckier. Cretans who saw the turtle managed to rescue the turtle and free it from the fishermen’s nets.