the whimsy turtle

🌍  Happy Earth Day & International Turtle and Tortoise Week!  🌏

This year’s Earth Day theme is Protect Our Species.  It’s especially fitting for ITTW:  More than half of the currently recognized turtle and tortoise species are threatened with extinction.*  Some species, like the Yangtze giant softshell turtle, are down to only a few individuals.  🐢😢

This week, we will be highlighting threatened turtle species and ways you can help to protect them.  We are all responsible for protecting the beautiful biodiversity of our home planet!  ❣️🌎

👉 Check out @earthday to learn how you can support the #ProtectOurSpecies campaign!

*  Source:  Turtles in Trouble: The World’s 25+ Most Endangered Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles – 2018, available at www.turtleconservancy.org/trouble.

Trick or treat!  I found pretty sweets!

What?!  These are fake noms?!  What kind of terrible trick is this?!  I can understand Mom telling me not to nom my new puffin friend, but telling me not to nom these stress relievers is ridiculous:  No nomming is a stress enhancer!

Happy Earth Day, friends!

Whether we like it or not, we all carry the fate of our planet on our backs.  Please be nice to our only home!

I haven’t dropped the ball yet, have I?

I still have time to right this ball?

Making sure the globe doesn’t crash is hard work!

Even harder when I’m moving!

(Remember when I was tiny enough to sit on top of this same globe?)

I found a bookshelf with a tiny-tortoise-sized, squishy seat!

Which one of these books tells where to find extra big dandies?

Happy Earth Day!

Today is all about celebrating the beautiful planet we call home!  With today’s signing of the landmark Paris Agreement, we are taking a big step towards keeping our planet beautiful for many years to come.  A clean Earth is a happy Earth!  🌎

Whoa, we are Trending on Tumblr again!! At the same time as Waffles and Mango, too! We are so very flattered. Thank you, thank you to all of our fabulous fans who have shown us so much love! To all our new followers: Hello and welcome! In keeping with tradition, here is a special top hat photoshoot for all our followers. Here's to tortle world domination!

Happy Earth Day, friends! We are all very lucky we live on such a beautiful planet. But if we kick it around too much, we will all end up flailing on our backs!