Baska

World Turtle Day 2019 I have just finished celebrating World Turtle day for the year, where I continued to teach my year 11 biology students about the function of kidneys but made it specific to turtles, which worked great as there is tremendous variety in the nitrogenous wastes they produce; and I was teaching my year 7 class about human water management and then went through an exercise of how this influences turtle populations in Cambodia (though they're also hugely impacted here in Australia, I know much less about them and so went with the more straight-forward option for myself). Pondering this day, I thought about what is going on for the different species of Batagur: is there anything to celebrate, or is it all doom and gloom? News looks pretty good for the  Burmese Roofed turtle , Batagur trivittata , which just saw the successful hatching of 46 hatchlings which are set to be headstarted for 5 years before release into the population, thus reducing their mortality rat