More about leatherback turtles

Our favourite turtle looks like she's off to France at the moment... see http://www.turtle.ie/ for a map of her location. Also there was a good show on Sky One last night called 'Final Chance to Save' about turtles, a leatherback turtle from Suriname was released with a satellite tag just like Myrtle. For lots more info about the turtle tracking project see http://www.panda.org/ Unfortunately, the turtle that was released during the programme was killed 20 days later, most likely by being caught in a gill net - which says it all really....