All sea turtles are protected under the endangered species act, so we are just trying to do everything we can,” said Holbrook. According to the Alabama Coastal Foundation, the organization that ...

And following our 757 species settlement in 2011, in April 2013 the Service agreed to submit to the Federal Register 12-month findings on our petition to list the Barbour's map turtle by September 30, ...

Alligator snapping turtles are scary-looking creatures. But they're an important part of the Alabama ecosystem, and they may soon be listed as a threatened species. Until recently, biologists didn ...

Instead, it gave them weaker protections, along with three other species of map turtles — Alabama, Escambia and Barbour’s — from poaching and commercial harvest due to their “similarity of appearance” ...