Sea Trutles

Hurricane Ian decimated Southwest Florida beaches last September, but it does not bother sea turtles this summer: the nesting season is on track to be one of the best in recent years

On Hillsboro Beach before sunrise Wednesday morning, the program manager for the Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program made his rounds to...

By Ross Bynum - Associated Press Rare sea turtles are smashing nesting records this summer on beaches in the Southeast, including Florida, with...

If you went to the beach over the Memorial Day weekend, you may have seen sea turtle nesting areas cordoned off for protection. That's because South...

Florida is a large nesting site for endangered sea turtles, such as the leatherback. Dr. Robbin Trindell leads the Florida Fish and Wildlife...

Officials say eggs are being stolen from sea turtle nests along southwest Florida beaches. The harbor master for the city of Naples, Roger Jacobsen,...

It's another record year for green sea turtle nests at the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers have counted more than 12,000 nests this…

When scientists first started counting the nests of green sea turtles in one area in the 1980s, they found fewer than 40 nests. In their last check, they counted almost 12,000.

It’s been five years since the Gulf oil spill, and five seasons of sea turtle nesting later, the St. George Island Volunteer Turtlers haven’t seen any...

Good news for some of Florida’s oldest residents: The number of endangered green sea-turtle nests across the state this year more than doubled the…