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Protected species in Gulf of Mexico could take decades to recover from Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2017

Balinese rituals fuel spike in trafficking of endangered sea turtles

Johnny Langenheim 4 May 2017

Saving Congo’s sea turtles: progress made but dangers ahead

William Clowes 1 May 2017
The coast of DRC. Photo by William Clowes for Mongabay.

Conserving Congo’s wild places on a shoestring

William Clowes 25 Apr 2017

Law enforcers recover 38 sea turtles in eastern Indonesia — 6 of them dead

Mongabay 1 Mar 2017
An olive ridley sea turtle hatchling, pictured here in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Efforts to conserve sea turtles disrupted by coal plant in East Java

Nuswantoro 31 Jan 2017

‘Too rare to wear’: new campaign targets tourists to end Hawksbill turtle trade

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jan 2017

Land reclamation in Malaysia puts environment, endangered turtle at risk

Kate Mayberry 2 Dec 2016

Belize suspends oil exploration near World Heritage Site after public outcry

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2016

Obama creates Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Sep 2016

Cambodia declares first-ever marine protected area

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Photos: the people of Indonesia’s marine protected areas

Mongabay 2 Jun 2016

From Soup to Superstar: the story of sea turtle conservation along the Indian coast – book review

Shreya Dasgupta 19 May 2016

What are the most popular reptiles in the world?

Mike Gaworecki 11 May 2016

Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Apr 2016

Critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are in even more trouble than scientists thought

Mike Gaworecki 5 Apr 2016

Four get maximum sentence for murder of Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Apr 2016

First ever biofluorescent sea turtle discovered in Solomon Islands

Mike Gaworecki 28 Sep 2015

Sea turtle conservationists attacked in Costa Rica

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jul 2015

Can a wild fishery be bred? Indonesia’s plan to restock its oceans

Melati Kaye 2 Jul 2015

With local help, hawksbill sea turtles make a comeback in Nicaragua

Shayna Wilson 28 Jan 2015

Suspects acquitted in shocking murder of sea turtle conservationist

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2015

Nano-tags track baby sea turtles during their first few hours

Leigh Cooper 3 Dec 2014

Saving Peru’s sea turtles and marine birds: conservationists and fishermen partner to tackle bycatch

Jeremy Hance 7 Oct 2014

No longer ‘deaf as a stump’: researchers find turtles chirp, click, meow, cluck

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2014

Survey finds huge biological value in Baja California, stalls resort development

Julian Moll-rocek 11 Jun 2014

Chinese poachers caught with 555 marine turtles, most dead (PHOTOS)

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

Malaysia imperils forest reserves and sea turtle nesting ground for industrial site (photos)

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2014

Collateral damage: new findings shed light on the full impact of commercial fishing

Nicholas Barrett 9 Apr 2014

A Turtle’s Tale: researchers discover baby turtles’ kindergarten (photos)

Tanya Dimitrova 14 Mar 2014

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

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