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Antonio Lopez makes markings in the sand to show what sea turtle tracks look like.

From the desert to the sea, CRRIFS cares for and protects San Carlos wildlife

Environment

CRRIFS, a wildlife rescue in San Carlos Nuevo Guaymas, Mexico, helps protect sea turtles and other animals facing threats from human activity. Many volunteers make their work possible.

A pig-nosed turtle, which is becoming a favorite as an exotic pet.

Pig-nosed turtles are adorable — and that’s made them the target of traffickers

Environment
Camila Ferrara of the Wildlife Conservation Society records the sounds from South American river turtles on the beach before they even hatch from their eggs.

It turns out turtles have something to say

Science

A Florida nail technician helped researchers develop a tracking device for endangered sea turtles

Environment

As climate changes, one species faces extinction by becoming exclusively female

Environment

High demand for sea turtles in China sends poachers toward Philippines

Environment

Chinese fishers have so badly depleted the population of sea turtles, many of them endangered, off the nation’s coasts that poachers are traveling far and wide to nab the sea reptiles. As China and the Philippines argue over stretches of the South China Sea, turtle poachers have already moved in.

The World

Sea Turtle Paternity Test

Sea turtle scientist Peter Dutton recently found a way to test sea turtle paternity. This breakthrough will help scientists estimate turtle population size, resilience, and sex ratios as the oceans warm.

Turtle Rescue

For the past twenty years, the New England Aquarium has been partnering with the Massachusetts Audubon Society to rescue endangered sea turtles who become too cold as water cools in autumn in Cape Cod Bay and get stranded on the beach. Again this year, there are more of these hypothermic turtles than ever in need of help. But thanks to volunteers at, many of these endangered creatures will be rescued, rehabilitated, and released.

Leatherback Turtles, Bulldozers and Human Nature

This week’s news about the disastrous deaths of thousands of young and still incubating leatherback turtles in Trinidad reads like something out of a dark comic novel, a gross parody of a cascade of bad decisions resulting in an epic disaster […]

Turtles Find Themselves in the Middle of Political Rift in Cyprus

Global Politics

Sea turtles on the island of Cyprus are endangered because of politics that divide the island’s Greeks and Turks, their governments and their scientists. They’re threatened by human activities on both sides of the island as well.