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How much plastic is too much plastic for sea turtles?

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Sep 2018

Latam Eco Review: Harlequin frogs, sustainable ranching, and miracle coral

Mongabay.com 3 Aug 2018

The mystery of the sick turtles: Q&A with animal disease detectives Chrissy Cabay and Daniel Woodburn

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jul 2018

Renowned wildlife conservationist Russell Mittermeier awarded 2018 Indianapolis Prize

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jun 2018

Venezuela’s hungry hunt wildlife, zoo animals, as economic crisis grows

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 21 May 2018

‘Monumental’ bust in Madagascar triggers effort to save thousands of endangered tortoises

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2018

Population of world’s rarest giant turtle rises to 4 with new discovery

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Apr 2018

In Jakarta, wildlife monitors find a hotspot for the illegal tortoise trade

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2018

New report highlights top 50 tortoises and turtles on brink of extinction

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

Conservationists rush to save Bolivian turtles threatened by egg trafficking

Eduardo Franco Berton 15 Mar 2018

Seychelles announces two new marine protected areas the size of Great Britain

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

Indonesian police bust Chinese nationals with 200 kg of turtle shells

Wahyu Chandra 12 Feb 2018

As 2017 hurricane season ends, scientists assess tropical forest harm

Claire Salisbury 11 Dec 2017

Study maps out reptiles’ ranges, completing the ‘atlas of life’

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2017

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Claire Salisbury 6 Oct 2017

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

Sam 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

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