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Rehabilitating wildlife in the aftermath of Harvey

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2017

Field Notes: Pond turtle studies could help sea turtles survive toxic algal blooms

Elizabeth Devitt 8 Jun 2017

Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected network for oceans

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2017

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

Watch a leatherback sea turtle return to the ocean after nesting on a Costa Rica beach

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2017

Sand mining ban lifted on beach in Suriname, causing public backlash

Rachel Fritts 27 Mar 2017

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

Mongabay 1 Mar 2017

Saving Jamaica Bay’s diamondback terrapins

Samantha Lee 16 Feb 2017

Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease

Elizabeth Devitt 13 Feb 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

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

Land reclamation in Malaysia puts environment, endangered turtle at risk

Kate Mayberry 2 Dec 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Diane Toomey 17 Aug 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

Pre-Columbian Amazon settlement primarily ate fish — more sustainable?

Claire Salisbury 8 Jul 2016

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Laurel Neme 6 Jul 2016

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

Shreya Dasgupta 19 May 2016

Turtle smuggler sentenced to 5 years in prison

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Apr 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

Photos: ‘Extremely rare’ baby albino turtle spotted in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Feb 2016

Chinese turtle heist sends rare Philippine species to brink of extinction, international rescue underway

Glenn Scherer 29 Jun 2015

Photos: new zoo exhibit dramatically displays real threat to Asian turtle

Jeremy Hance 4 May 2015

Locals lead scientists to new population of near-extinct reptile

Jeremy Hance 24 Feb 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

The threat of traditional medicine: China’s boom may mean doom for turtles

Erin Crandall 8 Aug 2014

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

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2014

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