Sea Turtles Good News

Uninhabited Poilão Island in Guinea-Bissau is Africa’s most important nesting ground for green sea turtles. Researchers and local people now work together to study the turtles with the aim of better protecting them.

This summer’s hatchlings won’t be back on land for 30 years. It’ll take at least that long to know how global warming is changing them.

Globally, the loggerhead population has decreased by 47% over the past three generations.

The fallen hatchlings are Florida’s version of a cat stuck in a tree.

Flynn was on the brink of death when he was first rescued in early February.

The group of hatchlings was led astray by artificial light near the beach.

A federal court upheld a ruling from 2019 that requires select shrimp trawlers to use special nets — all in the name of sea turtle protections.

Three fishermen were cruising for fish in the Chesapeake Bay when they came across the biggest sea turtle species in the world.

Bowser, a 172-pound loggerhead sea turtle, was rescued from the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier recently. The operation was one of a growing number of rescues in areas where sea turtles and humans overlap.

Bangladesh has seen the highest number of olive ridley turtle eggs this year thanks to extensive conservation action across beaches and a local awareness program.

Learn how to help protect sea turtles during their most vulnerable months.

Local volunteers patrol and protect sea turtle nests each year on Philippine beaches.