Boaters spotted a leatherback turtle in trouble in Cape Cod Bay. A storm was moving in — a team from Provincetown answered ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— Conservation groups filed a legal petition today urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revise protected critical habitat for the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys ...

After we twice sued to compel a response from the National Marine Fisheries Service, in 2012 the agency granted the turtle 40,000 square miles of critical habitat off California, Oregon and Washington ...

Part of The Leatherback Project’s programme to collect data on the migratory routes taken by leatherback sea turtles (dermochelys coriacea) and other turtle species, the hope is that this will ...

(WSVN) - A sea turtle hatchling was recovered and released into the wild in the Florida Keys. Liberty, a leatherback sea turtle, had an injured flipper that wasn’t allowing her to swim properly.

SAN FRANCISCO — Conservationists’ lawsuit against the opening of leatherback sea turtle habitat to stablefish pot fishing was tossed as moot because a new biological opinion has been issued. The court ...

Sea turtle nesting season occurs from May 1 to Oct. 31. Beach goers can become Sea Turtle stewards by keeping the beaches dark and free of trash and by volunteering for the Beach Stewards Program.

After 70 days of incubation, 19 hatchlings started their journey to the ocean from the first Leatherback sea turtle nest found on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in 16 years.

Tuesday, June 20 was a happy day on North Carolina’s Outer Banks for conservationists and animal-lovers. A routine check on Ocracoke Island revealed a leatherback sea turtle nest filled with ...

Wildlife experts determined one of the nests was at risk of ocean water washing over it and relocated the eggs. The endangered leatherback sea turtles are the largest turtles in the world ...

Sea turtle nesting season begins May 1, ... Fort Myers Beach has 7 miles of monitored sea turtle habitat and produced 71 nests last year. ... with 1,648 leatherback nests also being tallied.