All Entries Tagged With: "sea turtle"
Discovery Center Opens Today!
Join us for an educational experience about helping sea life on Cape Cod! Open 10-5 daily through Labor Day. A newly reorganized Marine Animal Discovery Center opened today. Featuring marine animal specimens and displays about rescue, rehabilitation, and release, the Discovery Center teaches visitors about marine wildlife conservation. A small gift shop offers eco-friendly and [...]
Celebrate Endangered Species
Today is Endangered Species Day. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service observes Endangered Species Day “…in order to recognize the national conservation effort to protect our nation’s endangered species and their habitats.” We’d like to recognize the 74 endangered and threatened species that the National Marine Life Center has cared for over the past six [...]
The Spirit of the Season
We have received such nice letters and notes of support along with your year-end donations. Thank you! One of our favorites was the following, from donors in North Truro. “December 29, 2009 “Friends, “Our family decided many years ago that we would step decisively away from the commercial aspects of Christmas. We agreed that we [...]
Sea Turtles and Climate Change
As this week’s United Nations Convention on Climate Change wraps up in Copenhagen, I thought it would be worthwhile to consider the effects of climate change on sea turtles. According to the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, who recently completed a report on the topic and presented it in Copenhagen, sea turtles are impacted by climate [...]
Turtles and now dolphins highlight the need for the National Marine Life Center
Over the past several weeks, Cape Cod has been inundated by stranded, cold-stunned sea turtles in what is being described as one of the largest years to date. Now, the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Marine Mammal Rescue and Research group reports that dolphin strandings are also on the rise. In the past week they’ve [...]
Caring Winter Wonderland at the Bourne Public Library
Help celebrate Christmas in Olde Bourne Village. Come to the Jonathan Bourne Public Library between now and December 15 and place your bid on a variety of uniquely decorated table top Christmas trees, including one to benefit the National Marine Life Center! Our tree and all others will be awarded to the highest bidders on [...]
GoodShop for Marine Animals!
We have something new and exciting we’d like to share with you! It’s the new National Marine Life Center GoodSearch/GoodShop toolbar – once added to Internet Explorer or Firefox, each time you shop at more than 1,300 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle!) a percentage of your purchase will automatically be donated to National Marine Life [...]
You’re not the only one waiting for this building to open!
Thanks to the creative juices of Joe Higgins and Rattle Marketing, a new sign graces the front of our hospital construction project. The sign features a photo of an endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle racing for its ocean home after having been rehabilitated, and cosestudi‘s conceptual design of NMLC’s new marine animal hospital. One can [...]
In Search of a New Host
As part of our on-going studies of the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle and our quest to understand the events that surround the cold-stun phenomenon that results with the stranding and death of tens to hundreds of turtles each year on Cape Cod we are studing the parasites collected from Kemp’s Ridley turtles that have [...]
New Parasite from Kemp’s Ridley
The loss of Caveman, a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle that died of sepsis and pneumonia following a cold-stun event last fall, was difficult for the entire staff, but we are continuing to learn about Kemp’s ridley sea turtles and issues that effect their health and natural history. During the necropsy (animal autopsy) we found an [...]
