Volunteers at coastal camps across Mexico, including in Veracruz, play a vital role in protecting endangered sea turtles.

Every year at the Pacific Islands Forum, leaders and representatives from the 18 member states take a group "family photo" in ...

Loggerhead Marinelife Center launches Tour de Trash beach cleanups and events across Palm Beach County this September for International Coastal Cleanup Month.

China’s exotic pet market is driving a spike in animal smuggling, U.S. wildlife officials say. But these turtles are getting a second chance. Credit...Elias ...

CRANFORD, New Jersey (WABC) -- More than 100 box turtles not native to New Jersey turned up along a Cranford roadway this week. Residents scrambled to rescue them, and investigators are examining ...

“Pancake, Pancake, Pancake!” the crowd on Coney Island shouted as they watched a young endangered sea turtle return to the ocean on Thursday after spending nearly a year in rehabilitation. The ...

CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Carried like a conquering hero to the shores of Coney Island, a small but mighty sea turtle named Pancake was returned to the sea. It's a homecoming, you might say, ...

It was a shell yeah moment. A very nervous endangered turtle made its grand return to the Coney Island sea as local kids cheered it on — months after the reptile nearly froze to death. Pancake — a ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A leatherback sea turtle laid eggs at Naval Air Station Oceana's Dam Neck Annex, marking the first recorded leatherback to nest in Virginia. The NAS Oceana Natural Resources team ...

An endangered sea turtle named Lucky washed up in Nova Scotia last year. Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of why she and other turtles are traveling so far north. The Kemp's ridley is the ...

This summer has been one of the best for Hilton Head’s loggerhead sea turtle population. The Hilton Head Island Sea Turtle Patrol announced a record-breaking 343 sea turtle nests have been found on ...