Enjoying turtle meat is becoming more popular in foreign countries and that’s eating into Iowa's turtle population. A bill limiting when Iowans can hunt and harvest turtles passed in the Iowa House.

Today is the first day in Florida that it is illegal to hunt freshwater turtles for commercial purposes. Truly the end of the era. The turtle-hunting industry has apparently been relatively booming ...

Leatherback sea turtles are endangered, but there's been a flurry of recent sightings — and a few near-fatal trappings — in the Lowcountry recently. On Saturday, a leatherback sea turtle was seen ...

Numbers of threatened turtle doves in western Europe have rapidly recovered after a hunting ban was introduced in 2021, conservationists said. Numbers in the region increased by 40% to 610,000 ...

A small loggerhead turtle, just minutes old, survived two perils that could have and should have ended its young life. But thanks to the good eyes and quick responses of some human volunteers, the ...

Giant loggerhead sea turtles are putting on a show at Hunting Island, which is not unusual. But in this nesting season, double the number have deposited their eggs then departed land, in full view ...