Sea turtles

Swimmers in Nafplio on Friday rescued a sea turtle that had become entangled in a fishing net. The animal was spotted by a swimmer who brought it to shore and freed it from the netting with the help of other beachgoers before releasing it back into the sea. Turtles often get trapped in discarded nets. [Evangelos Bougiotis/ANA-MPA] 

The first batch of native baby turtles hatched on July 24 at a protected beach of Turkey's Aegean coast.

Fifty nests of endangered loggerhead sea turtles, also known as caretta caretta, have been destroyed by construction equipment in the district of Serik in the Mediterranean province of Antalya.

A Turkish pop music festival which was planned to take place on June 5-7 in Turkey's southern province of Mersin has been delayed due to concerns about the spawning period of the endangered caretta carettas, after outcries from environmentalists and a lawmaker.

A new project uniting six Mediterranean countries is working to save endangered populations of sea turtles from the combined threats of tourism, pollution and fishing.

Coast Guard authorities have arranged for the burial of two dolphins and a Caretta caretta turtle that were found dead earlier this week, reports said on Wednesday.

One of the dolphins was found off the coast of Karames in northwestern Sifnos and the other off Port Lagos, in northern Greece, on Tuesday morning.

AFP - More than 300 sea turtles from an endangered species were found dead on a beach in southern Mexico, trapped in a banned type of fishing net, environmental authorities said.

Members of the Hellenic Navy's underwater demolition teams have carried out a controlled detonation of two unexploded World War II artillery shells found in the sea off the southern coast of Cephalonia, it emerged on Saturday. 

The Ionian island of Zakynthos looks poised for a record-breaking year in terms of births of the endangered loggerhead sea turtle this year, data from the Archelon Society for the protection of the Caretta caretta show.

A dead sea turtle is seen off the port of Nafplio on Wednesday. The turtle had a large gash in its shell, according to rescuers. Conservation groups say dead turtles are an increasingly common sight, noting that many get trapped in fishing nets or injured by speedboats. [Evangelos Bougiotos/ANA-MPA]