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Two endangered loggerhead turtles were rescued in Rio’s Guanabara Bay on May 2. Anitta, a 238-pound adult female around 25 years old, was found with Shakira, a juvenile weighing roughly 163 pounds and aged 15 to 20.

Researchers from the Aruana Project named the pair in tribute to the “Choka Choka” performance in Copacabana.

Mersin, Turkey

Newly hatched loggerhead turtles instinctively make their way to the sea

We sat on the sand and watched the stars since there was no light pollution, while some of the guides searched for a nesting female and then watched as she laid about 60 eggs into a sandy hole in the ground. I got to hold a baby turtle too when one of the guides literally rescued it from a crab’s claws and showed it to us before helping it along to the ocean. On the drive back to our hotel the sky was cloudless and we could see thousands of stars.

Loggerhead turtles are among the species here that are internationally protected. This one was found dead with a fishing line hooked in its mouth

Photograph: Juan Cuetos/Courtesy of Oceana Europe

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Two rare loggerhead turtles washed up on the Dutch coast on Saturday, one on the Dishoek beach near Vlissingen and the second at ‘s-Gravenzande, not far from The Hague. The Vlissingen turtle’ shell was studded with mussels and it is in a severely weakened condition. “Normally they take the mussels off themselves,” Jaap van der Hiele from the Reddingsteam Zeedieren told broadcaster NOS. “The mussels make them increasingly heavy and then it becomes even harder to find food so they weaken even more.” Both turtles have been taken to the Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam, the only place in the country that is equipped to care for sea turtles.  

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