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US Declares 88 Beaches as ‘Critical Habitat’ for Loggerhead Sea Turtles
Almost half of the US coastline from North Carolina to Mississippi has just been designated as critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles of the...
Oyster Shell Recycling Program Opens for New Orleans Restaurants
"After you shuck ‘em, don’t just chuck ‘em," is the motto for a new oyster recycling program which aims to help restore Louisiana's Gulf...
Right On! First B.C. Right Whale Sighting in 62 Years
After 62 years, there's new hope for one of the rarest animals on earth. A lone Pacific right whale has been sighted off the...
Oil Exploration Halted in Gorilla Park Virunga
Conservationists have claimed one of their greatest successes in recent years following the unexpected decision by British oil company Soco to stop exploring in...
Steller Sea Lions Rebound Off Endangered List
A five year plan to shore up dwindling populations of eastern Steller sea lions, the threatened species that roams from Alaska to California, has...
New Shark Species Discovered off Carolina Coast
Scientists have discovered a new species of shark in the ocean off South Carolina and have named it for the region where it was...
Biggest North American Trout Once Thought Extinct Returns to Ancient Pyramid Lake
What's unfolding in Nevada is a fish story about the one that didn't get away, a tale of loss, discovery and restoration that reaches...
Wild Salmon Making Huge Comeback in California
For years, fishermen, farmers and hydroelectric dams were in a tug of war on the Klamath River in California. Finally, the once bitter enemies...
Americans Deliver Fishing Boats to Japan on First Anniversary of Tsunami
Family fishermen in Japan took delivery of a very special donation, on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that wiped out their...
Leatherback Sea Turtles Granted Protection Along U.S. West Coast
A major decision to protect feeding hotspots for endangered leatherback sea turtles off the shores of Washington, Oregon and California was finalized last week...
Woman Recruits Facebook Friends to Save 7000 Gulf Coast Hermit Crabs
In the months since the BP oil spill, Leanne Sarco, a ranger at the wildlife preserve in the Gulf of Mexico along the fragile...
Grand Banks Cod Stocks Grow 69% Since 2007
Atlantic cod stocks are recovering in the Grand Banks, southeast of Newfoundland, new fisheries figures show. In the last three years cod stocks have...
New Study Finds Solution to Lionfish Invasion, Eat The Delicious Fish!
Chefs need to introduce this “delicious” fish to consumers, says a new government study looking at how to curb the rapid growth of lionfish,...
Blue Crab Population Up 60 Percent In Chesapeake Bay
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley announced Wednesday that the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has increased substantially for the second straight year. The results of...
‘Extinct’ Frog Species Found Again After 30 Years
A species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has been found in rural Australian farmland, officials said last week....
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...
16 Nations Step in Line for Sustainable Tuna
Colombia joined Japan, the United States, Spain, France, and 11 other nations last month endorsing a landmark treaty to protect tuna along the entire...
Sturgeon Return to Spawn in Detroit River Thanks to Artificial Reef
For the first time in almost 40 years lake sturgeon have spawned in the Detroit River, thanks to an international reef construction effort completed...
Indonesia Launches Southeast Asia’s Biggest Marine Park
A migration route for almost half the world's whale species which contains vast amounts of rare coral will be preserved in the Savu Sea...
Vast Reserve to Protect Prince Edward Islands and its Penguins
South Africa’s declaration to establish one of the world’s largest Marine Protected Area’s around its Prince Edward Islands, is a marine conservation achievement of...