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I recently returned from a trip to New York City where I visited our youngest chickadee, Anna, to celebrate her birthday. On a whim, I brought a first edition copy ...

Waterfront landowners eventually discover that snapping turtles, beavers, and other aquatic pests are not just background ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and detected plastics in 7 of the 10 individuals studied. By integrating ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Dozens of community members gathered Saturday morning at Mustang Island Gulf Beach to witness the Amos Rehabilitation Keep’s first public green sea turtle release of the season ...

It may not be Christmas yet, but visitors to Padre Island National Seashore got an early and extraordinary surprise this week. Around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, beachgoers spotted tiny green sea turtle ...

In 1978, green sea turtles were placed on the endangered species list primarily due to human activities like bycatch in fisheries, habitat loss from coastal development, pollution, commercial hunting ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) - Federal prosecutors have charged a man with illegally importing the head of a green sea turtle — a species protected under CITES and the Endangered Species Act. The ...

A 62-year-old Beaufort man has pleaded guilty to illegally importing and purchasing the head of a protected sea turtle species. John Trask III signed a plea agreement Monday in Beaufort’s division of ...

TRURO - The sea turtle rescue begins before dawn, right after high tide. Mass Audubon Turtle Patrol volunteers scour the beaches, guided by flashlights to make sure they don’t miss a cold-stunned ...

Decades of conservation and beach patrols have boosted green turtle numbers-but recovery is uneven and ongoing threats from storms, erosion, warming sands, poaching and plastics mean sustained ...

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