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Wildlife officials have relocated over 200 olive ridley sea turtle eggs from Orange County beaches to the Aquarium of the Pacific ahead of this weekend's hazardous surf, which threatens to wash away the nests.

California’s first sea turtle eggs could hatch any day now. Biologists prepare for the ‘frenzy’

Federal biologists made a last-minute decision to relocate the eggs after forecasters predicted high tides would swamp their nests on Orange County beaches.

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2015 photo, illegally trafficked leopard and tiger heads stored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Office of Law Enforcement fill the shelves of a warehouse inside the National Wildlife Property Repository in Commerce City, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

Countries take first step toward global crackdown on environmental crime

Personnel and guests from Dana Point-based Capt. Dave’s Whale Watching recorded a rare sighting of 13 Eastern Tropical Pacific Orcas off the coast of Laguna Beach on Sunday. Social media footage showed the whales traveling in a pod and within feet of a few boats, leaving guests stunned and howling. The sighting was at least the third for the company over the last three weeks, Capt. Matt Stumpf said, fueling speculation as to what the normally Baja-based whales are doing so far north.

Surprising close encounters with marine predators in California bring awe and fear

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES - 2026/09/11: A common perennial bracket fungus, growing on a tree in the Redmond Watershed Preserve, Washington State, USA. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/Getty Images)

Fungi get their own global conservation strategy

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Anaheim couple trafficked endangered wildlife parts, including bear gallbladders and lion teeth, feds say

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He left millions to animals. His executor gave it to her friends’ charities, which have done little

Neighbor who allegedly fed a coyote involved in attack on toddler could be charged

Brazil says Amazon deforestation fell to the lowest level since 1988

Biotech firm Colossal set to return extinct bird’s egg to New Zealand

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OJAI, CA - October 07, 2026: An Eastern box turtle in its wooden enclosure at the Turtle Conservancy in Ojai, CA, on Oct. 7, 2026. (Julie Leopo / For The Times)

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How L.A. became a turtle smuggling hot spot, pushing this rescue group to the brink

Eric Goode, the documentarian behind ‘Tiger King’ and ‘Chimp Crazy,’ also runs the Turtle Conservancy in Ojai. It’s been operating on overdrive as the illegal turtle trade out of LAX and the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach has climbed.

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