wildlife

Onlookers lined the edge of a roped-off area as each turtle was lifted from a plastic bin and set gingerly on the sand. With a little help getting past the seaweed, the turtles used their flippers to head out into the gentle surf.

Local experts suspect bird flu.

The fisher can be found throughout Massachusetts, except for the islands.

In the last two weeks alone, IFAW’s Yarmouth-based marine mammal rescue team has responded to 26 stranded dolphins, including 14 stranded bottlenose dolphins in Brewster on Monday. That event marked the largest recorded mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins in the U.S. Northeast.

Rescue teams from the New England Aquarium, the Center for Coastal Studies, and the Barnstable harbormaster’s office came together to disentangle a six-foot-long, 400-pound leatherback.

Cape Cod has long been a stranding hotspot. But June marked the biggest dolphin stranding in U.S. history.

American eels have long been a culturally and ecologically significant species on Cape Cod and the Islands. But in the past few decades, the population of eels has been declining. Researchers at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation (NCF) want to know: by how much?

Two years ago osprey nests on utility poles in Falmouth caused 10 fires, some of which led to power outages and birds dying. A partnership between a volunteer group and utility company Eversource aims to save birds and protect the electric grid.

The New England Aquarium has published an online map so that people can track turtles released on Cape Cod this summer.

Ocean conservationists are urging mariners to watch out for sea turtles this summer.