Professor MD Farid Ahsan of Chittagong University conducted research on endangered turtles in the Cox’s Bazar area. They identified 11 existential threats to sea turtles. These include destruction of turtle nests on the Cox’s Bazar beach by unplanned infrastructure development, use of restricted gill nets known as current nets and tow nets, haphazard lighting of […]
“If I were a turtle, I wouldn’t want to live or be born in West Africa, or Africa, period,” he said. The 46 turtles making the journey from Monaco’s Oceanographic Museum to the turtle village of Noufle, about 35 kilometers (20 miles) from Senegal’s capital Dakar, are all young – the oldest only eight years […]
