Brevard Zoo secures $1.75M federal funding for new sea turtle care complex

Brevard Zoo secured $1.75 million in federal funding for its new sea turtle care complex, part of the planned $140 million Bowen Aquarium at Port Canaveral.
Sarasota Magazine

It's Sea Turtle Nesting Season. Here's How to Keep Turtles, Nests and Those Tiny Hatchlings Safe.

Mote Marine Laboratory's Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) documented the first local turtle activity of the 2025 season on Saturday, April 26. The STCRP team reported one ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Tracking sea turtles is a long, slow process that just might keep them alive

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter. In the middle of a steamy July night on the Wassaw Island beach, near Savannah, Georgia, volunteer Gabi Steinbach ...
The Island Packet

The numbers are in. How many nests did sea turtles lay on Hilton Head this year?

The first sea turtle nest of the season was named Wednesday in honor of recently deceased Hilton Head hotel manager Jay Wiendl. Sea Turtle Patrol Hilton Head Hilton Head’s sea turtle moms have done ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Leatherback Sea Turtle Habitat in Puerto Rico One Step Closer to Protection

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— As a result of a petition filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that nesting habitat for leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) ...
Yahoo

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered

Green sea turtles crawl toward the sea after emerging from their nests on the beach of Samandag in Hatay, Turkiye (Turkey) on August 6, 2025. “The ongoing global recovery of the green turtle is a ...
Houston Public Media

Sea turtle rescue crews prepare for possible cold-stun event along Texas Coast

A rescue crew member holds a cold-stunned turtle. Ahead of this weekend's potential winter weather, sea turtle patrol groups with the Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research are gathering totes, towels ...