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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

‘Hope springs eternal’: the anniversary of the death of Lonesome George

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Jun 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

Fish-terrorizing, prehistoric-looking turtle actually three species

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2014

Chelonians for dinner: hunting threatens at-risk turtles and tortoises in India

Chris Samoray 23 Apr 2014

Photos: mass turtle hatching produces over 200,000 babies

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2014

The smoothtooth blacktip shark and four other species rediscovered in markets

Frank Izaguirre 21 Jan 2014

Over 350 species added to the IUCN Red List’s threatened categories in the last six months

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2013

Leatherback sea turtle no longer Critically Endangered

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2013

Eighty sea turtles wash up dead on the coast of Guatemala

Lacey Avery 27 Aug 2013

Costa Rican environmentalist pays ultimate price for his dedication to sea turtles

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2013

Five percent of ploughshare tortoise population perishes after botched smuggling attempt

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2013

Scientists discover that marine animals disperse seagrass

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2013

How many animals do we need to keep extinction at bay?

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2013

Over ten percent of a species’ total population found in smuggler’s bag

Jeremy Hance 25 Mar 2013

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