The Nature Conservancy of Canada is asking motorists to watch out for turtles trying to cross the road this summer as many are being struck and killed.

The fire reportedly started after the 45-year-old tortoise knocked over a heat lamp which then set fire to its bedding.

An estimated 5.25 trillion pieces of macro and microplastics, weighing 269,000 tons, are in the oceans right now.

Researchers' efforts are protecting the endangered specie, but climate change and human activity are still affecting its population.

A Regina toddler named Archer is hoping someone in Regina knows where his stuffed turtle is after he lost it at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum on Tuesday.

Dr. Moshe Oz performed surgery and saved the animal.

"On a busy day we see upwards of 40 to 50. We have never had a year where we have taken in that many turtles."

Li Wan was caught with the turtles at the U.S.-Canada Border on Jan. 27, 2018, after failing to declare them.

So far this year, 230 injured turtles from across Ontario have been dropped off at the centre in Peterborough.

Red Rockette was first tagged off Nova Scotia in 2012, and since then her travels to and from a Colombia beach have offered scientists in both countries a previously unseen look into her species' movements and nesting patterns.