Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals that are seeing their numbers decline due to the exotic pet trade.

The owner of Britain’s Guardian newspaper has confirmed that it has sold the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper to Tortoise Media for an undisclosed fee.

State Department of Public Safety troopers recently helped rescue an escaped sulcata tortoise that was attempting to cross Interstate 10 near Picacho.

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For 11 years, a tortoise born with metabolic bone disease struggled to walk.

ROSEVILLE, Mich. – Great Lakes Reptile in Roseville was watching two of the Crowe family’s pet tortoises, Chip and Dale. However, Chip went missing and a 9-year-old boy is wondering what happened to him. Drew has had the tortoises for two years since they were hatchlings, and Chip is the one with all of the personality. “I was really attached to the one that was missing... It’s just been really depressed for the last few days,” he said. We don’t really know what happened.”AdHe said it’s possible that the tortoise was stolen and offered to replace it.

Its something Ive longed to do since I was in high school, and now this month, my 20th book is being released by Sleeping Bear Press. Its the most recent addition to the series of memoirs that have been the result of a collaboration between me and the amazing illustrator Tim Bowers. The first of the series was a book called Memoirs of a Goldfish, which was published in 2010. And its led to a continuing partnerships on several other memoirs Memoirs of a Hamster, Memoirs of a Parrot and Memoirs of an Elf followed, and now theyre joined by Tortoise (which I should note it quite different from the comedies of the previous books). Well, heres one possibilityREAD MORE: Ann Arbor publisher released new childrens book by Devin Scillian

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Ann Arbor-based publisher Sleeping Bear Press has released a new childrens book authored by WDIVs Devin Scillian. The childrens book is the latest addition to the Memoirs Of series, which includes Memoirs of a Parrot and Memoirs of an Elf. Like what youre reading? (Devin Scillian, Tim Bowers)Memoirs of a Tortoise costs $16.99 for a hardcover or PDF copy. He has authored 20 books, 10 of which have been published by Sleeping Bear Press. Sleeping Bear Press is a small publisher based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.