Conservation

Go behind the scenes at the South Carolina Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Care Center during a nearly yearlong journey to get a massive injured loggerhead back home

The number of nesting loggerheads along the Southeastern coast is projected to break records this summer. What does it mean for the threatened species?

A Virginia nursery fights back against a blight wiping out one of the South’s most beloved plants

Caretakers of a generations-old seafood business in the historic Georgia community of Harris Neck, a father and son look toward the promise of modern oyster farming to preserve a legacy—and a way of life—inextricably tied to the water

Unspoiled island formerly owned by Ted Turner is now part of the state’s park system

Meet Captains for Clean Water, the non-profit that’s charting a new course for South Florida’s ecosystem—and the fisheries it supports

The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald is celebrating its favorite day of the year with programs to raise awareness about these amazing animals

Great whites may get all the notoriety, but lemon sharks are making a splash of their own at a Bahamian research facility

Closer than you might think, according to a Kentucky native’s research outfit that is leading the way on shark conservation

In rural Alabama, a haven for purple martins generations in the making

An unprecedented coalition forges a plan to save one of the most crucial animals in the longleaf pine ecosystem

A night of terror in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

What makes them great, why they’re in danger, and where you can shuck one at its freshest

New Orleans wildlife artist Alex Beard champions conservation beyond the canvas

There’s no finer quail country than the Red Hills, 300,000 acres of longleaf and wiregrass and home to more than a hundred sprawling plantations. Who’d have thought a real estate broker would become its unofficial steward?

Conservation efforts for the playful animals are seeing remarkable success

Lloyd Davidson has always been prone to wanderlust and wild ideas, but even those who know the Tennessee native could never have predicted he’d be the best hope to save the scarlet macaw

Texas researchers identify a new threat to the bobwhite

An inside look at hummingbird research in the jungles of Belize

Since first encountering an indigo snake as a boy, the author has been haunted by this all-but-extinct vestige of the Southern wild, once as much a part of the landscape as the longleaf pine. For fifty years he has walked the woods in search of an indigo, with an eye to the ground and, at long last, a little help from perhaps the only group in the world trying to save them