On this edition of Wildlife Wednesday, our Wildlife Wednesday reporter, Vinny Mutone, introduces us to three of the world’s ...

Around the world, many conservationists are celebrating increases in sea turtle population growth. Cape Verde in West Africa now has 100 times as many loggerhead turtle nests each year as there were ...

Padre Island National Seashore is reducing volunteer patrols for the upcoming Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season. Volunteers and community members have expressed concern that fewer nests will be ...

The Turtle Survival Center, run by the Turtle Survival Alliance, exists to buy time for species that no longer have much of it. Founded in 2013 in South Carolina, the center functions as a ...

PADRE ISLAND, TX — Padre Island National Seashore has significantly reduced the number of volunteers allowed to search for Kemp's ridley sea turtle eggs, limiting field teams to just four volunteers ...

A wildlife crossing in Eliot, Maine, has successfully reduced turtle deaths on State Route 236. The underpass was specifically designed to protect the endangered Blanding's turtle. Since the tunnel's ...

Without official explanation from Padre Island National Seashore, community members are left to speculate about the reasoning behind the volunteer reduction. Italy launches investigation as newly ...

Kemp's ridley sea turtles are among the most endangered species of sea turtles in the world. They reside along the east and Gulf coasts of North America, alongside some of the world's most active ...

An underpass installed beneath a busy stretch of road in Eliot a few years ago has led to ‘a substantial reduction in turtle mortalities,’ according to a state biologist. A Blanding’s turtle in the ...

Pennsylvania’s legendary Punxsutawney Phil isn’t the only rodent that emerges on Groundhog Day each year to make a “prediction” about whether we will have a long winter or an early spring. New Jersey ...

The Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research, the Houston Zoo and the Galveston Island Park Board returned 100 sea turtles to the Gulf of Mexico days after they'd been rescued from the weekend freeze.

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