Tag: green turtle
DoE and vets rush to save poached turtle
(CNS): An adult female wild green turtle, estimated at over 400 lbs, was saved from the poacher’s knife yesterday after DoE enforcement officers Carl Edwards and Alan MacKay responded to a report in the Eastern Districts. The turtle was found on her back in a tool shed impaled through the neck and flippers by four […]
Turtles still challenged but nest numbers steady
(CNS): Over 300 turtle nests were identified by Department of Environment staff during this year’s turtle nesting season on Grand Cayman, with a combined total of more than 400 on all three islands, slightly down on the 2015 figures but given seasonal fluctuations, experts believe there is a steady upward trend. DoE Research Officer Janice […]
Turtle release a ‘time bomb’ says animal charity
(CNS): The animal rights charity that has been campaigning for the Cayman Turtle Farm to be transformed into a true conservation facility has condemned the release of 15 farmed yearlings into the wild. World Animal Protection said the relaunch of the controversial release programme was putting the wild turtle populations in jeopardy because only last […]
CTF relaunches green turtle release
(CNS): After suspending it turtle release programme for several seasons because of problems with disease and other husbandry issues at the facility, the Cayman Turtle Farm released 15 yearling green sea turtles on Saturday off Barkers Beach in West Bay. Officials said CTF had “satisfied itself through extensive testing and available scientific data” that releasing […]
In support of the Turtle Farm
David Miller writes: We constantly hear that the Cayman Turtle Farm is barbaric, against the environment, evil, stupid, costs too much, etc, etc, but one would agree that in the past people near the coast caught turtles and ate them all over the world. Turtles have existed for hundreds of millions of years. They existed […]
Turtle Farm ranks high on cruel attractions list
(CNS): The Cayman Turtle Farm is coming under fire again on the global stage with the publication of an Oxford University report, which assessed wildlife attractions and the levels of cruelty. The report gave the CTF the same marks for animal welfare as bear dancing and snake charming because of the cruel conditions in which the turtles […]
Turtle Farm critics take aim at ‘curtain of conservation’
(CNS): The international animal rights charity, World Animal Protection, and the conservation body, Sea Turtle Conservancy, have described the Cayman Turtle Farm’s position on its role in protecting wild green sea turtles as nothing more than a “curtain of conservation”. Following the recent publication of a study on turtle meat consumption that found just one […]
Cayman Turtle Farm boosts hatch rate with better diet
(CNS): More than 38,200 eggs were laid by the Cayman Turtle Farm’s breeding turtles this season as a result of improvements in the food and hatchling process. In years gone by, the CTF had serious problems with the numbers of eggs being laid and the survival rate but this season, from the first nest of 100 […]
Green turtles would disappear without farm, says MD
(CNS): With only around 60 nesting female green turtles in local waters, the demand for meat and the willingness of local consumers to eat wild animals, regardless of the law, the species would be extinct in Cayman within months if the Cayman Turtle Farm was to close, Tim Adam, the CTF’s managing director has stated.
70% of residents not eating turtle
(CNS) Documents now attached: A new report that examined turtle consumption habits in the Cayman Islands has found that less than a third of the population is eating the national dish and that most tourists do not indulge when they visit. Only 30% of residents ate turtle over the last 12 months and just 1% […]
Trouble and turbulence at the Turtle Farm
(CNS): Recent revelations regarding the cover-up of mass deaths and disease at the Cayman Turtle Farm last year and the efforts of management to try and prevent the media from publishing details of the director losing his temper in a personnel meeting caught on video have raised further questions in the community about the viability […]
