Padre Island National Seashore is offering the public free virtual training sessions on how to properly find, recover, and document cold-stunned sea turtles.
259 cold-stunned sea turtles washed up on the beaches of Laguna Madre over the past few days, an ecological crisis which experts attribute to recent cold weather.
Experts have ruled out several potential causes, as 282 turtles washed up in just three months, which is twice the average number seen from 2012 to 2021.