Gettin' jiggy wit' it
(Na-na, na, na, na-na-na-na)
(Na-na, na, na, na-na)
Gettin' jiggy wit' it
(Na-na, na, na, na-na-na-na)
(Na-na, na, na, na-na)

#TurtleTuesday

🐢🐢 TURTLE TUESDAY 🐢🐢

🌏 Tiny Raine Island is the largest nesting site for 90% of endangered Green Sea Turtles. Unfortunately, rising sea levels are creating slopes that cause hatchlings to flip over and die. Climate change's heat is causing too many females to be born.

💪 But an intrepid group of egg relocation specialists, armed with high tech and knowledge from Indigenous groups nearby, is saving the day. They have relocated eggs at scale to a safer island.

🌊 This year, more than 9,100 northern Great Barrier Reef green sea turtle hatchlings have begun their journey to the sea. An amazing 82% of the relocated eggs hatched and made it to the water.

✅ This is another example of a conservation effort that is successful because it uses Indigenous knowledge to be ecological and sustainable.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-01/green-sea-turtle-babies-hatch-/106739118

#TurtleTuesday #SeaTurtles #Conservation #GreenSeaTurtles #Environment #ClimateChange #WildlifeConservation #Wildlife #Biodiversity

TURTLE (OR TORTOISE) TUESDAY

☀️ In the southern Sahara, where degraded, baked, crusted soil prevented any seedlings to establish, ecological restorationists dispatched 500 "ecosystem engineers."

More commonly known as African spurred tortoises, the ecotechnicians went to work digging burrows to avoid the desert heat and cold.
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🌧️ Water stayed in the soil. Plants grew. Insects and microorganisms moved in, followed by birds and small mammals.

🛰️ From space the region even looks alive.

✅ This is another example of a successful low-tech nature-focused rewilding effort. (Recall my incessant beaver updates.)

https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/sahara-desert-ecosystem-restoration-tortoises/

#TurtleTuesday #Environment #Rewilding #EcologicalRestoration #EnvironmentalRestoration #Conservation #Biodiversity

Turtle Taxi 🚕 for #turtletuesday

#photography #amateurphotography #turtle #car #green #thisistheloweffortaccount