News of January 2nd, 2007:
In the "If you have a turtle" section, there is a new Vademecum, with the pictures of Giuliano's aquarium.
News of December 26th, 2006:
Thanks to your generosity in collecting signatures for the petition, the new target is 10,000 by the end of 2007. Then, the law WILL have to change. Keep on fighting!
News of October, 2nd, 2006:
On the 1st day of October, there has been the "On the 500 car with the animals" exhibition in Gambolo (Pavia, IT), which has been joined by 53 vintage cars! Funds for abandoned animals have been raised. Thanks to Mery Guarischi!
News of August, 25th, 2006:
NoTurtle.Org will be present at a meeting "In the 500 automobile with animals" (please, click here to see the site),
which will take place on October, 1st, in Gambolo' (Pavia, Italy), near the Castle, where the love for animals and that for the historical car will meet.
It will be possible to get information about the situazion of freshwater turtles and it will be possible to sign the petition to protect them!
News of May, 22nd, 2006:
Thanks to the help of the friends of NoTurtle.Org, the signatures for the petition are running to 3,000! To know more about the petition, please click on the "Petition" menu item on the left-hand menu.
News of March, 23rd, 2006:
We have created a guestbook you can sign to let us know what you think about our initiatives! Please, click on "guestbook" in the left menu and you will see!
News of March, 17th, 2006:
More and more signatures for the petition are arriving! Let's go on like this!
News of February, 27th, 2006:
More than 5,000 every month are visiting our site! The effort for the petition is now also supported by LAV (Anti-Vivisection League) of Bari, Italy!
News of November, 20th, 2005:
Thanks to many volunteers and to associations as Oltre La Specie (see links), we are approaching 2,000 signatures for the petition!
News of June, 4th, 2005:
1. The deadline for the first collection of signatures for the petition to save the freshwater turtles has been reached. Thanks to many associations and individuals, now we have almost 1,000 signatures, that will be fundamental to present the serious problem to the European Parliament!!!
Go to the petition to know more.
2. Co-founder of noTurtle.com Giuliano Sadar reports that in the city of Trieste, Italy, a legislation is effective to ban the sale of freshwater turtles in the area!
News of March, 11th, 2005:
Two important pieces of information:
1. The signatures from all Europe increase! Tens of them have arrived from Greece.
2. Noturtle.org appears as the first site searching for "Yellow Ear Turtle" in Google, and the third by searching for "Red Ear Turtle!"
News of January, 24th, 2005:
A very important contribution to the cause of the turtle protection - by Clifford Warwick - has been added in the "Articles" section of the site.
News of November, 10th, 2004:
More sites are talking about our petition. Go to the "links" section to check out who they are!
News of September, 12th, 2004:
The site has been slightly redesigned in order to be more visible by search engines. The English part has been renewed in order to launch the site all over Europe.
News of April, 23rd, 2004:
Yesterday, on the occasion of the successful meeting, kept by Giuliano Sadar and Riccardo Moschetti following the invitation by the "Oltre la Specie" ("Beyond the Species") Association, there was the distribution of the first forms for the petition for the Protection of Turtles.
The petition will ask for the ban on the importation of all the subspecies of freshwater turtles to Europe. The collection of signatures will last for a year, as far as we can see.
By clicking on the "Petition" item of the menu on the left, it is possible to download the forms, in PDF format (who does not have the Acrobat Reader software can download it, thanks to the link provided).
We do hope everybody will do their own part, in order to try to stop this horrible trade.
Good work, everyone!
News of April, 17th, 2004:
On April, 23rd, 2004, a petition to the European Parliament will start. It will ask for the prohibition of the importation of all subspecies of freshwater turtles to the European Union. This will be asked both to protect European species of freshwater turtles, and because imported turtles suffer incredible pain for the shipping.
