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News Articles: turtles

Red knots eating horseshoe crab eggs Credit: Fletcher Smith/DNR

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  • Environment

Report highlights Georgia wildlife conservation efforts

For drivers with a wildlife license plate and other donors, this report shows where the money went.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Mary Landers
For years, the hatching of sea turtles has attracted curious viewers from all over Lebanon, but on Sept. 8, 2024, only a handful made it to the Mansouri Beach in Tyre, despite attacks by Israel on the southern border.

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  • Environment

Another casualty of Israel's war in Lebanon: Efforts to save endangered turtles

Lebanese volunteers are anxious to get back to sea turtle conservation on southern beaches that were off-limits to civilians when fighting escalated between Israel and Hezbollah.

January 22, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Charlotte, a male green sea turtle, wears a 3D-printed harness to help him overcome "bubble butt syndrome" — a condition caused by a boat strike. Charlotte lives at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.

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  • Animals

A sea turtle plagued by 'bubble butt' condition is helped by a 3D printer

"Bubble butt" can leave turtles struggling to swim normally — or unable to submerge at all. A 3D-printed harness can help.

December 28, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Box turtles are one of many species looked after by the Turtle Conservancy. The group cares for illegally trafficked turtles once they’re confiscated.

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  • Animals

In a secret location in New Jersey, a turtle whisperer cares for trafficked animals

In an undisclosed New Jersey location, there's a sanctuary for turtles intercepted in the process of being trafficked, and a man devoted to his charges.

October 30, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
On Wednesday, April 4, more than one thousand supporters gathered on Great Dunes Beach Deck Jekyll Island, Georgia to cheer the turtles on.

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  • Animals

12 sea turtles return to wild after recovering in Georgia

A dozen sea turtles have returned to the wild after several months of being treated for injuries and illnesses on the Georgia coast.

April 05, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Credit: Zoo Atlanta

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  • News

Georgia Today: House passes fiscal budget for 2024; New voter registration system; Baby turtles

On the Friday, March 10 edition of Georgia Today : The Georgia House passes its version of the fiscal year 2024 budget; we explain Georgia's new voter registration system; and Zoo Atlanta introduces two tiny new additions.

March 10, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Gabriel Jorgewich Cohen began researching whether turtle species — and other vertebrates thought to be mute — make sounds by recording his own pet turtles. The hydrophone used for recording can be seen on the left.

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  • Animals

Dozens of species were assumed to be mute — until they were recorded making sounds

Some animals like birds and frogs are famous for the sounds they make. But have you ever heard a turtle talk? Most turtles were thought to not make sounds at all — before researchers went deep.

November 03, 2022
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  • Laurel Wamsley
Image shows two pythons

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  • Animals

Georgia restricts ownership of pythons, tegus, other reptiles

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources Board on Tuesday voted to limit future ownership of Burmese pythons, along with Indian rock pythons, Argentine black and white tegus, Nile monitor lizards, African helmeted turtles and Chinese softshell turtles.

October 28, 2022
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  • Mary Landers
Marine biology student Ranim Tahhan, 21, pictured left, and another volunteer work to clean Tyre beach from the pollution caused by an oil spill in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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  • Middle East

Amid Myriad Crises, Lebanon Now Confronts An Ecological Disaster On Its Shores

Some of the country's last beaches spared from development are now carpeted in globs of tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean, damaging beaches that are nesting grounds for endangered turtles.

March 28, 2021
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  • Ruth Sherlock

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