Turtles

Endangered turtles returned to the wild

The pig-nosed turtles made the trip from Port Moresby Nature Park in the capital to the Gulf Province via plane and then by boat where they were released into a side estuary of the Kikori River.

Random Acts of Kindness: Turtles get new lease on life

Arron Culling, a New Zealander working in Papua New Guinea, said he found the turtles at the local market, waiting to be sold for their meat.

He decided to buy them, and simply drove to the nearest beach, approximately five kilometres away, and released the beautiful creatures back into the ocean.

Culling posted photos of the rescue to Facebook, which have so far been shared over 30,000 times on social media.

Shrinking fish catches alarm

WWF’s Living Blue Planet Report has highlighted enormous losses in the world’s oceans – but this was not just about “losing some fish and turtles”, according to John Tanzer, director of WWF International marine programme.

“It is about the unravelling of the fabric of an ecosystem that sustains life on Earth.”

Tanzer said while Nasa’s photos taken from space in 2015 showed the same blue planet that Nasa had captured in 1972, “we know the planet has changed substantially and perhaps irrevocably in the intervening four decades”.