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Staying Up All Night to Save Sea Turtles (Video)
Ever since the night 10 years ago, when Oscar Aranda, a biology student out of college, witnessed the gruesome death of a sea turtle...
FedEx On the Move Saving Gulf Sea Turtles
To help thousands of endangered sea turtles survive the oiled Gulf waters, wildlife experts have begun lifting turtle eggs out of the sand and...
Wildlife Officials to Save 70,000 Gulf Sea Turtle Eggs With FedEx Trucks
Gulf Coast rescuers are hatching a daring plan to save as many as 70,000 sea turtle eggs from the fouled water along Florida's...
Agreement Reached in Gulf to Prevent Sea Turtle Burning Deaths
An agreement reached today among conservation groups, BP and the Coast Guard will ensure measures to rescue sea turtles from the surface before setting...
4000 Sea Turtles Saved from Florida Frost
Upward of 4,000 sea turtles were rescued within days of a severe cold snap hitting Florida, which stunned the turtles into a chilled...
Turtle Thought to be Extinct Spotted in Myanmar
One of the world’s rarest turtle species – the Arakan forest turtle – has been observed for the first time in the...
Special Hospital Saves 1000 Sea Turtles (Video)
Most injured turtles are never spotted, and die at sea. The lucky ones are taken to the Turtle Hospital in the Florida...
Woman Crazy for Turtles Ends Slaughter of Giant Leatherbacks
What was once a turtle graveyard is now one of the largest leatherback nesting colonies in the world, thanks to a woman who grew...
Surge in Hawaiian Hawksbill Turtles Encouraging
A surge in new nesting Hawaiian hawksbill sea turtles over the past several years may be evidence that a 20-year-old effort to protect beach...
Florida Talks Tough for Turtles
Florida wildlife officials have tentatively approved a new rule that will impose the nation's strongest measures to protect freshwater turtles in the...
Finned Wetsuit Made for Sea Turtle With Only One Flipper (Video)
Allison, a green sea turtle with only one flipper, was outfitted in a black neoprene suit with a carbon-fiber dorsal fin on...
Hatched Turtles Set off on Sea Journey (Video)
Crowds came to a sea turtle sanctuary in the Mexican state of Chiapas to help set some 7,000 hatchlings off on their journey into...
Israeli Turtle Gets Skateboard to Replace Legs
Officials in a Jerusalem zoo have fitted a 55-pound spurred tortoise with a custom skateboard to overcome paralysis of her hind legs. The 10-year-old ...
Australian is Saving Whales, Seals and Turtles With Incredible Passion
Rupert Imhoff, a young financier, is an animal rights hero in Australia. Through his online networking against cruelty toward marine animals, he has attracted...
Cuba Throws Lifeline to Sea Turtles
Cuba has thrown a lifeline to the Caribbean’s endangered and critically endangered marine turtles with a government resolution ending all harvesting of marine turtles.
Such...
Sea Turtles Nesting in Record Numbers on African Coast
Loggerhead nestings have reached record high levels in South Africa, a positive sign for the endangered marine turtle. There were over 2,000 loggerhead nestings...
Loggerhead Turtle Nests Up 22% as Wildfire Burns Nearby
Nesting activity for the threatened Loggerhead Sea Turtle on Blackbeard Island in Georgia has increased 22 percent over its 30-year average. Let's hope they...
Volunteers Help Rescue First Turtle Nest of Season
Volunteers and officials near Panama City Beach, Florida, have been helping sea turtle eggs survive so that baby turtles can safely hatch and return...
Good News in History, May 4
198 years ago today, Frederic Edwin Church, one of the foremost painters in the American landscape movement known as the Hudson River School, was...
Significant Blow to the Illegal Pet Trade: Big Bust Rescues Dozens of Lemurs and Tortoises
In a pair of busts that will end up costing criminals millions, Thai police raided a suspected wildlife smuggling site and saved hundreds of...