TAMPA, Fla. — It was a historic nesting season as the highest number of nests was ever recorded, according to Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium. The Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program ...

Preliminary counts show roughly 6,600 nests along Palm Beach’s Atlantic shoreline this season. The majority of nests belonged to loggerhead sea turtles. The 2025 sea turtle nesting season ran from ...

Florida's beaches—particularly those in Palm Beach County—are among the world's most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests in ...

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Loggerhead Marinelife Center logged 20,872 nests, a nearly 40% increase from the previous year. Despite the high numbers, some nests were lost to beach erosion. Researchers advise beachgoers to keep ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Hawaii’s green sea turtles have rebounded dramatically, but federal protections still ban Native Hawaiian ...

CHARLESTON — While the work to rehabilitate their population is far from finished, South Carolina’s Green sea turtles just had one heck of a good month. The International Union for Conservation of ...

In the shallow turquoise waters off the island of Providenciales in Turks and Caicos—a British overseas territory south of the Bahamas—large adult green sea turtles rest on the sandy seafloor, grazing ...

The global population of green turtles has increased approximately 28% since the 1970s, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Getty Green sea turtles are no longer endangered ...

Green sea turtles are no longer endangered, "thanks to decades of sustained conservation action," the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) shared The global population of the species ...

The green turtle, found across the world’s oceans, is recovering after decades of decline, according to the latest IUCN Red List assessment. The species has been reclassified from endangered to least ...

Green sea turtles are rebounding, thanks to global conservation efforts. John Burns / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration After decades of decline, green sea turtles are making a comeback.