After years of steady gains, a decades-long conservation program dedicated to the Kemp's ridley hits rough seas ...

Learn more about the different species the NPS has helped bring back from extinction.

The olive ridley turtle is named for the generally greenish ... Olive and Kemp’s ridleys are the smallest of the sea turtles, weighing up to 100 pounds and reaching only about 2 feet in shell ...

6 All shapes and sizes There are more than 300 different species, and the largest is the leatherback sea turtle. It can grow up to 900kg. The smallest turtle is the speckled padloper tortoise that ...

And though their nesting grounds are protected and many commercial fishing fleets now use turtle excluder devices ... Kemp’s ridleys are among the smallest sea turtles, reaching only about ...

The bog turtle is North America’s smallest turtle, measuring about the length of a human thumb ... Only 14 viable sites remain across the turtle’s entire five-state southern range. Full protection as ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the southern population of the bog turtle as a federal endangered ...

In 2023 more than 52,000 sea turtle nests were counted on the beaches of Florida´s Space Coast. From the northernmost point of the Canaveral National Seashore to the Beaches of the Sebastian Inlet in ...