The tale of sea turtles is still more cautionary than triumphant, and far from over. ...more

January 23, 2008

The biographer of Dr. Archie Carr, "the man who saved sea turtles" will speak in Brooksville Thursday. ...more

January 22, 2008

Hernando Audubon Society announces the following activities for January: Bird Walk at Bayport will be conducted Saturday, Jan. 12. If interested in attending, meet the group at 7 a.m. sharp at Hardee's Restaurant located at 6292 Commercial Way in the Weeki Wachee Village plaza at State Road 50 and U.S. 19, Weeki Wachee. The walk will be a coastal trip concentrating on shorebirds and coastal inhabitants. For more information, call Bernie at 352-754-9030. ...more

January 11, 2008

Two environmental groups are asking the Interior Department to declare loggerhead sea turtles that inhabit the Atlantic coast officially endangered, maintaining that tens of thousands of them are killed annually by commercial fishing and because of coastal development. ...more

November 15, 2007

It's been more than a decade since Florida voters overwhelmingly adopted a ban on fishing nets in coastal waters, but poachers are still flouting the law. ...more

November 14, 2007

Surrounded by dozens of beachgoers, a 120-pound loggerhead sea turtle nicknamed Charlie Brown returned to the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after a trip in the back of a pickup from Clearwater Marine Aquarium. ...more

October 18, 2007

North of the Tampa Bay area is a 170-mile stretch of wooded land that contributes to the health of the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

September 26, 2007