Padre Island National Seashore is reducing volunteer patrols for the upcoming Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season. Volunteers and community members have expressed concern that fewer nests will be ...

Loggerhead turtles accounted for the vast majority of nests, with 5,384 recorded. A record number of sea turtle disorientations, 716 instances, were also documented this year. Experts advise beach ...

On Oct. 23, Calvin University welcomed 11 baby spotted turtles from John Ball Zoo as a part of a program aimed to strengthen the spotted turtle population in Michigan. Spotted turtles are considered ...

As recently as August 2024, researchers in Greece documented the non-native Chinese stripe‑necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) on the island of Lesbos during fieldwork, finding three adults co-occurring ...

Lucas Meers, director of Jacksonville University's new sea turtle program and established leader of the Mickler's Landing Sea Turtle Patrol and his volunteers were out Monday posting new sea turtle ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville University is launching a new program aimed at protecting sea turtles and their coastal habitats. The new JU Sea Turtle Program was announced on Monday, which is ...

Jacksonville, Fla. — Jacksonville University has launched a new Sea Turtle Program to help protect one of Florida’s most protected marine animals. The University announced the program on World Sea ...

[UPPER PHOTO: Sea Turtle swimming in the Virgin Islands March 2025; Photo Credit: Larry and Sharon Pasikowski, used with permission by WOKV/Cox Media Group LOWER PHOTO: Sea Turtle Program at ...

It seems fitting that Dellora – a creature named for one of the region’s conservation heroines – laid the season’s first documented green sea turtle nest on Sanibel last month. The Sanibel-Captiva ...

The nonprofit partner for national parks on the Outer Banks has opened its annual program that allows supporters to symbolically adopt sea turtle nests along Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Outer ...