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Sea Turtles of St. Croix: Research Benefits Nesting Beaches
Everyone enjoys a day at the beach, but for sea turtles safe beach access is a matter of life and death. Sea turtles lay their eggs on the beach. Nesting is often the only time female sea turtles touch...
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Sea Turtle Tasks: A Night in the Life of a Researcher
Seeing a sea turtle lumber onto a beach and lay its eggs is, undeniably, a spectacular experience. For sea turtle researchers, it also means a lot of work. I recently joined the Conservancy’s...
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Have You Seen This Lizard?
Citizen Science Tuesday connects you with opportunities to be a part of conservation science with outdoor projects around the world and online projects to try from the comfort of your own home. What is...
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Hawksbill Turtles: A Rare Good News Story for a Species on the Brink
From a history of violence to sea turtle success: that’s the story of hawksbill turtle conservation told in a new paper appearing in PLOS ONE by The Nature Conservancy’s Rick Hamilton and coauthors....
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10 Cool Galapagos Endemics (That Aren’t Finches or Tortoises)
Your childhood science textbooks lied to you — finches and giant tortoise aren’t the coolest species in the Galapagos Islands. Now that’s not to say that these classic Galapagos species aren’t cool —...
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Making Sea Turtles “Climate Proof”
How can conservationists help sea turtles adapt to climate change? Consider the challenge: sea turtles nest on island beaches, one of the habitats hit hardest by rising sea levels. But Conservancy...
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The Best Places to See 10 Iconic American Animals
With summer upon us, it’s time to go looking for America’s iconic wildlife. I’ve focused on the critters that people love to look for in our national parks. The creatures that adorn t-shirts and make...
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Indigos Return: A Florida Breeding Program Raises Eastern Indigo Snakes for...
Something’s moving — I can hear soft bumps and faint slithering coming from the stacked rows of 70-odd bins in the center of the room. The crisp label on the edge of each tray reads: D. couperi. More...
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Recovery: Rare Turtle Gets a Second Chance
“Conservation” is no longer enough. Instead of just saving what’s left we need to restore what’s lost. Neither I nor half a dozen of my colleagues at the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Game...
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Can Helicopter-deployed Toad Sausages Save Australia’s Northern Quoll?
The fight against invasive species takes a bizarre and creative twist: Conservationists are saving endangered marsupials by throwing drugged amphibian sausages out of helicopters. You read that right....
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Ten Strange, Endearing and Alarming Animal Courtship Rituals
Human dating rituals may often seem strange, confusing and not-at-all productive. But the next time you’re wondering if you should wait three days to call, or if you talked too much at dinner, be...
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Five Close Encounters of the Crocodilian Kind
Encounters with the Order Crocodilia – crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials – have been among my most memorable wildlife encounters. I’ve traveled widely to spot large predators in the wild,...
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The Alligator in the Basement: Breeding Bird Colonies Benefit Alligator...
Even the most dedicated reptile-lover wouldn’t want an alligator hanging around the school playground. But for waterbirds in the Florida Everglades, having an alligator near their nesting colonies...
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Record Your Reptile & Amphibian Sightings for Conservation
To badly misquote Kermit the Frog, it’s not easy being an amphibian. Or a reptile. But your observations can help! For many of us with natural history inclinations, spotting reptiles brings up memories...
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Recovery: Saving Timber Rattlesnakes, Why Wildlife Recovery Isn’t a...
If you can look with equal appreciation and concern at timber rattlesnakes and, say, New England cottontail rabbits — both gravely imperiled in the Northeast — you’ve arrived as a naturalist. Most...
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10 Overlooked Wildlife Experiences in Our National Parks
Think of wildlife in U.S. national parks, and certain images pop to mind: Bears. Bison. Elk. Wolves. All spectacular critters, to be sure. But the National Park Service protects a wide range of...
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A Slaughter on Sikopo: Poaching Threatens Hawksbill Turtles in the Arnavons
Something was wrong with the turtle we call PT-160051. It was near midnight on Wednesday 3 May, and the satellite transmitter we had affixed to her shell 16 days earlier had stopped working. Programmed...
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A Day in the Life of a Field Scientist: Arnavon Islands Edition
The options for entertainment on a remote tropical island might sound slim — but not with this crowd. In April I joined Nature Conservancy scientist Richard Hamilton and a team of local conservation...
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Unraveling the Mystery of Hawksbill Sea Turtle Migration
An outboard motor roars in the distance, quickly approaching the island as the sun crests over the distant horizon. News spreads quickly through camp — they’ve caught another turtle. The boat pulls...
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Life in the Dark: Never-Before-Photographed Sea and Cave Creatures
Far beyond our comfort zone, many of the world’s most fascinating creatures dwell. We don’t think about them or dream about them because we don’t see them. And often, we literally can’t see them. They...
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