Two public meetings about the Glynn County lighting ordinance pitted residents’ safety concerns against advocates who seek more protections for nesting sea turtles on the area’s barrier islands.

More than 250 diamondback terrapins have been documented along the Jekyll Island Causeway so far this year, with about two-thirds rescued alive.

Loggerhead sea turtles have steadily rebounded in recent years, with 4% annual population growth since the 1990s.

Slow seasons, including this year's, are much higher than they were in decades past.

One researcher is “cautiously optimistic” about 2024's sea turtle turnout.

This spring, as manatees migrate to Georgia and sea turtles spend more time at the water’s surface, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is asking boaters to be cautious.

A sea turtle researcher says the animals are “on the road to recovery.”

Pinpointing sources of light pollution could help conservationists save sea turtle hatchlings.

After a record year, the 2023 outlook calls for low-to-medium sea turtle nest production this year

On the Thursday May 4 edition of Georgia Today: Midtown Atlanta shooter, Deion Patterson, faces charges; sea turtle nesting season has begun; feral horses on Georgia’s Cumberland Island National Seashore may not be there much longer

The assessment for 2022 was a slight decline from the previous year's “A-.”

Kemp's ridley sea turtles have hatched in Louisiana's wilds, officials say, in a victory for barrier island restoration. The tiny turtle is also believed to be the world's most endangered.

After a decades-long decline, the number of loggerhead sea turtle nests on the Georgia coast hit its all-time high since recording began in the late 1980s. But an expert says there's still a lot of conservation work to do. 

Staff at the Tybee Marine Science Center rescued Ike in 2020 when he was a tiny straggler too weak to climb out of his North Beach nest on his own. He is the latest in a series of rescued loggerheads who serve as the center’s “marine debris ambassador.”

After three years educating visitors to the Tybee Island Marine Science Center, Admiral the loggerhead was released into the wild.