News of July 6th,
2010:
We have reached almost 6500
signatures! With everybody's effort, we can reach 10.000 by
the end of the year!
Important: we closed the Post Box because of
the inefficiency of the Milan 65 Post Office (which rejected
half of the mail).
The Signatures for the
petition must be sent to:
www.noturtle.org
c/o
Riccardo Moschetti
viale Coni Zugna, 11
20144 Milano -
Italy
News of January 27th,
2009:
Because of the seemingly endless
number of signatures arriving, the petition (see the
"PETITION!" section in the menu at the left) will continue in
2009!
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.
