Tag: Sea Turtle Inc.

Hundreds of volunteers and Sea Turtle Inc. staff continued Thursday to rescue cold stunned green Atlantic sea turtles from the Laguna Madre bay as water temperatures remained below the turtles’ survival threshold.

As temperatures plummeted Monday in the Rio Grande Valley, staff at Sea Turtle Inc are preparing for a cold stun event.

Sea Turtle Inc. on South Padre Island is inviting everyone who can make it to the organization’s 46th anniversary/founders day celebration on Tuesday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Registration for the annual Red Tide Ranger training is open for the classroom instruction that will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 30, at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Coastal Studies Lab at 100 Marine Lab Drive, in Isla Blanca Park, on South Padre Island.

One of Sea Turtle Inc.'s longest living residents died Monday, the nonprofit said on Facebook in a statement memorializing the beloved turtle.

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — It is just before 9 a.m. and a breeze sweeps in off the water over the dunes Saturday as Sea Turtle Inc. Chief Conservation Officer Amy Bonka inspects rows of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle egg clutches buried in the sands of the organization’s protective corral.

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Sea Turtle, Inc. plans to say a fond farewell and welcome a new chapter in its history with a land dedication ceremony at the site of its former hospital and now in-construction Rehabilitation and Research Center.

Atlantic green sea turtles face all manner of ailments and injuries, and that’s why Sea Turtle, Inc. is building a new 15,000-square-foot hospital.

Galaxy swipes the air with his flippers, head stretching toward the rolling waves and the sea beyond, volunteers sending him back home.

Galaxy swipes the air with his flippers, head stretching toward the rolling waves and the sea beyond, volunteers sending him back home. Whistles and cheers...