A network of West African Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) covers key sites used by green turtles, new research shows. A network of West African Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) covers key sites used by ...

Five species of marine turtles are reported to nest on African beaches - the green (Chelonia mydas), the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), the loggerhead (Caretta caretta), the leatherback ...

Conservation of sea turtles along much of Africa's east coast has made good progress in recent decades -- but tens of thousands of turtles still die each year due to human activity, researchers say.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have traced the 3,000-year-old “food footprints” of endangered green sea turtles around the Mediterranean. By comparing turtle bone ...

Over 500 baby sea turtles, mainly endangered loggerheads, have been rescued in Cape Town after a rare storm. The Turtle Conservation Center is rehabilitating around 400 turtles, while sending the rest ...

The world's third-largest nesting ground for Loggerhead turtles can be found on the island beaches of the small African nation of Cape Verde, known locally as Cabo Verde. The average Loggerhead Turtle ...

For those who are really -- really -- interested in sea turtles, researchers at the University of Exeter in England have a Christmas present for you. They fitted a pair of adult female leatherback ...

LUANDA, Angola (Reuters) - Pope Benedict flew from Cameroon to Angola on Friday with an unusual traveling companion -- a turtle. Just before he left Cameroon, the pope met a group of Baka Pygmies, ...

This story appears in the February 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. About 260 million years ago the earliest ancestor of turtles and tortoises, a bulbous reptile known as Eunotosaurus ...

A network of West African Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) covers key sites used by green turtles, new research shows. The RAMPAO network runs along the coast of seven countries, from Cape Verde to ...