Sea Turtle Conservancy

10/14/2026

Sometimes sea turtle conservation can be scarier than a haunted house 👻🎃

10/14/2026

Checking in with leatherback turtle Luna 🌙 since she was tagged and released after nesting in Panama this past May, she's traveled an incredible 4,165 miles through the Caribbean Sea and up the East Coast, chasing jellies through cooler Atlantic waters 🪼 where do you think she'll head next??

Follow Luna and the rest of her turtle friends at www.tourdeturtles.org or on the STC Turtle Tracker App! 📱

10/13/2026

Gutting the Endangered Species Act for permitting reform? Not on our watch ‼️

At the end of September, Senators Heinrich, Whitehouse, Capito, and Lee filed the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act. Within the 417-page bill are concerning provisions that could drastically weaken the Endangered Species Act, coming at a time when the landmark law’s language and implementation are under threat. To name a few, the bill:

🐢 Changes the definition of “best available science,” a bedrock principle under the ESA that informs how species are listed. The proposed change would limit agencies’ ability to account for uncertainty and reasonably foreseeable risks to species when making listing decisions.

🐢 Creates a program that could allow individual states to take over Section 7 consultations – a role currently held by the federal government. Due to the highly migratory nature of many listed species, including sea turtles, a coordinated approach to protection across the entire U.S. is necessary. Most states do not have the resources, expertise or institutional structure to manage the protection of 1,600 species.

🐢 Directs every biological opinion challenge to the D.C. Circuit and imposes a 150-day deadline to bring these challenges in court. This would severely limit the public’s access to local courts and overwhelm the D.C. Circuit.

This bill is expected to be up for a vote in November. We need your help to tell Congress to keep the ESA out of this bill. Call the Capitol switchboard number at (202) 224-3121 to stand up for threatened and endangered species.

10/13/2026

We want to hear your thoughts! 🗣️ We're conducting an informal survey to help guide an upcoming campaign. This short four-question survey will take less than two minutes and can be found here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M2YHG3B

10/12/2026

Tortuguero nesting update! As of October 10, we've recorded 14,792 green turtle nests on the 8 km of beach STC monitors in Tortuguero, Costa Rica. While we are still averaging around 50 nests a night, nesting is starting to slow down as we enter peak hatchling season 🐢💚

Photo credit: Ben Hicks Fine Art

10/08/2026

With Hurricane Isaias moving through the Gulf, we are satellite tracking quite a few sea turtles right where it is headed. Listen to learn who is in the path and what sea turtles do during hurricanes! 🌀🌊

10/08/2026

We only have a few medals left and we are still trying to reach our goal of having Tour de Turtles Virtual 5K participants from every state! Do you call one of these states home or know someone who lives there? Idaho, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virgina, and Wyoming.

Encourage them to sign up and support sea turtles by tagging them below! 🥇

10/08/2026

It's looking like the loggerheads are done for the season here in Florida, but what an impressive season! And the greens have officially surpassed the loggerheads in the Archie Carr Refuge 💚

It is looking like the loggerheads may be done for the season, but what an impressive season!

Thank you to the UCF Marine Turtle Research Group, Sebastian Inlet State Park, and Ecological Associates, Inc. for monitoring and reporting nesting activity in the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge

* Please note the nesting numbers only reflect the State Park's numbers through Sept. 1st