But most of these 1,200 sea turtles were lucky. The wind and currents had carried their motionless bodies ashore, where, at least, they could be found. Last week’s extraordinary storm that ...
Rescue teams brought the cold-stunned sea turtles to Panama City Beach to warm up. Dozens of cold-stunned sea turtles were pulled by biologists from the frigid waters of St. Joseph Bay in Florida ...
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission documented over 1,200 cold-stunned sea turtle rescues within six days. Florida’s northern coast was recently hit with a rare cold weather ...
Five cold-stunned sea turtles are under the care of veterinarians at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.Volunteers, marine crews, and members of the Coast Guard rescued nearly 900 ...
Although many rejoiced and took advantage of the rare snow by having snowball fights, sledding and even building mini snowmen, the winter weather had a lasting impact on green sea turtles along ...
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. -- Three Green Sea Turtles are headed to Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park in Fort Walton Beach for treatment after being found cold-stunned on Pensacola Beach amid the ...
Dozens of cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued after temperatures plunged. An 'exhausting and relentless' five days: In one case, two officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...
This year, it was a species of sea turtle often rescued from Cape Cod beaches. “It’s a joy every year to create iconic species that the New England Aquarium has devoted its energy and time ...
ST. JOSEPH BAY, Fla. (CBS12) — More than 1,200 sea turtles were rescued in northern Florida following a significant cold-stunning event in mid-January. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...
TACLOBAN CITY – A green sea turtle, found trapped in a fish cage on Jan. 16, died the following day. A report from the Fishery Law Enforcement Team (FLET) of the Tacloban City government on ...
Life Medturtles, an EU-funded sea life conservation project, estimates that more than 70 percent of sea turtle deaths in the Mediterranean are caused by gillnets—large nets used for mass fishing.