News Roundup

Kemp’s Ridley NRDA Assessment

• News Release
  • June 28, 2012 — Satellite Telemetry Used To Study BP Oil Spill Effects on Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
• Documents
  • Kemp's Ridley Assessment Work Plan Fact Sheet
  • Excerpt from Natural Resource Damage Assessment Status Update
• Video
  • Video News Report on YouTube: "Tracking Kemps Ridley Turtles"
  • Video on YouTube: Turtle Satellite Tracking GFX
  • Download High-resolution Video: "Tracking Kemps Ridley Turtles" (Look for "JuneVNR_ Tracking Kemps Ridley Turtles" for SD and an HD versions without titles, also eight minutes of unedited footage and soundbites with Donna Shaver, Sea Turtle Science and Recovery Division Chief, Padre Island National Seashore, and a high-resolution file of Turtle Satellite Tracking)
• Photographs
  • TPWD News Images
• Related Links
  • Padre Island National Seashore ridley recovery: http://www.nps.gov/pais/naturescience/strp.htm
  • Kemp’s ridley sea turtle binational recovery plan: http://www.fws.gov/kempsridley/
  • Deepwater Horizon oil spill NRDA: http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov
  • Sea turtle satellite tracking: http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking
  • NOAA Fisheries Service Office of Protected Resources: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/turtles/kempsridley.htm
• TPWD Related News Releases
  • June 28, 2012 — Satellite Telemetry Used To Study BP Oil Spill Effects on Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
  • July 1, 2011 — Jeff Boruff Memorial Sea Turtle Release Returns Turtles To Wild
  • Aug. 30, 2010 — Texas Marks 10 Years, $30 Million in State Wildlife Grants Federal Funding
  • June 2, 2008 — Death of Endangered Turtle Signals Need for Vigilance on Texas Beaches
  • March 31, 2008 — Texas Parks and Wildlife Receives Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Awards
  • Jan. 14, 2008 — Houston Zoo to Host 2008 Texas Wildlife Diversity Conference
  • May 7, 2007 — Public Asked To Report Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles on Texas Coast
  • July 3, 2006 — Record Sea Turtle Release Marks Kemp’s Ridley Comeback
  • May 8, 2006 — Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles Return to Texas Coast
  • June 6, 2005 — Texas Zoos To Host Meetings on State Wildlife Plan
  • Dec. 20, 2004 — Top Texas Conservation Stories of 2004
  • July 19, 2004 — Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles Set Texas Nesting Record