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On a Panamanian beach long after dark, a group of undergraduate students dug into the sand to excavate a sea turtle nest, their lamps casting a soft red glow as they studied eggs, inventoried the success of the hatch and checked for any surviving hatchlings stuck at the bottom of the nest. Nearby, armed members of the National Border Service stood watch for protection in an area known for drug trafficking. The students worked under the guidance of Callie Veelenturf, who founded a group that works to protect leatherback turtles and pushed for a new law in Panama that guarantees...

Armed with a wooden stick, a bucket and a headlamp, Philippine construction worker Johnny Manlugay hunts every night for the eggs of sea turtles on the pristine beaches of the northern province of La Union. The 55-year-old can easily spot nesting sites, having been trained in his youth by his grandfather how to track the animals and their eggs, which his family traded at the time or ate. But his egg-stealing days are over. Now Manlugay has turned his skills to helping protect marine turtles on the provincial beaches favoured by the endangered Olive Ridley species to build nesting sites.

Gisele Bündchen saved a sea turtle’s life after finding it had been washed ashore upside down while trapped inside a fishing net. The rescue was captured on video and shared to her Instagram. In the video, a distressed Bündchen, 41, squats down and immediately begins to carefully de-tangle the large upside down sea turtle from the discarded netting while speaking in Portuguese. “Early this morning I was walking on the beach and Onyx started barking at a pile of ocean trash that had washed during high tide,” she wrote alongside the video.

The deadly winter storm that swept across Texas and parts of the South knocked out power and water for millions. It also created a catastrophe for animals statewide — including for sea turtles prone to freezing in frigid waters. ...“It was like an apocalypse of turtles littered on the beach,” Bellamy told The Washington Post in a phone interview Thursday. More than 800 turtles have since been plucked from Laguna Madre by a ragtag group of about 50 Navy pilots and flight students, military spouses, family members and military retirees, said Biji Pandisseril, the Navy installation’s environmental manager. More turtles...

Disabled combat veteran Stan Pannaman had every reason to think that surviving a bomb blast during the Vietnam War might be his closest brush with death. But five decades later the 72-year-old ex-Marine got another scare on a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea beach when he was shot and wounded with his own gun while volunteering to protect sea turtle nests, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. "It was bizarre, for lack of another word," Pannaman said Sunday from his home in Tamarac. "After he shot me, the guy looked like he was in shock. He looked very, very surprised. He actually headed toward...

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We are constantly told that Americans are the ones destroying the planet and thus creating many species on the earth to become extinct, but maybe, just maybe we are not the problem. At I have always said that America is the friendliest country when it comes to the environment and animals. So for some proof that Sea Turtles are not becoming extinct because of the lights on beaches during the season that the sea turtles hatch their eggs, take a look at what the citizens of Costa Rica are doing to help save the sea turtles. OK they are...

A romantic marriage proposal on a Hilton Head Island beach Tuesday night had an unintended consequence - the death of about 60 federally protected loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings. A man had placed about 150 luminarias - bags with lit candles inside - in the shape of a heart on the beach near Palmetto Dunes, according to volunteers with the Sea Turtle Project who monitor the nests. After the proposal, the visiting couple apparently retired to their rental home without extinguishing the lights. An estimated 60 baby sea turtles emerged from a nearby nest a short time later and became disoriented...

DESTIN, Fla. - A beach restoration project in the Florida Panhandle has been shut down until next fall after an endangered sea turtle was killed, authorities said. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stopped the work after the Kemp's ridley sea turtle was killed during dredging Sunday. It was the third endangered sea turtle killed since the project began...

They are passed up for best jobs as they have lost touch with fast-changing China, and their Western traits are scorned BEIJING - Fluent in English and armed with an MBA from the University of Wisconsin, Mr Kevin Wang returned here after four years abroad, confident that his foreign degree would pay instant dividends in China's booming economy. But Mr Wang's 2002 homecoming was a bust. Responding to countless Internet job postings without success, he soon lowered his US$40,000-a-year (S$69,300) salary goal - based on pay scales in the US. Finally, after a frustrating two-year search in which he taught...

Shark Populations Plunge in North Atlantic By Cat Lazaroff WASHINGTON, DC, January 21, 2003 (ENS) - Shark populations in the north Atlantic have plummeted by more than half since 1986, shows a new study by researchers in Canada. The decline, blamed largely on overfishing, has affected top predators including the great white and hammerhead sharks, impacting marine food chains in ways that are still being studied, the researchers said. The scientists, from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, looked at records of shark catches between 1986, when fishers and fisheries managers began keeping thorough records, and 2000. CAPTION Hammerhead...