The Chandeleur Islands, battered by recent hurricanes, are Louisiana’s largest barrier islands. It’s the first and largest line of defense from the gulf, with the project covering over 13 miles of the ...

Trail cameras on the Chandeleur Islands off Louisiana's eastern coast captured footage of more than 60 tiny, endangered loggerhead turtle hatchlings emerging from two sandy nests in August and ...

Crawls from newly hatched baby sea turtles observed on the Chandeleur Islands. (Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority) The islands were discovered on Feb. 1, 1700, by explorer ...

Chandeleur Islands to be submerged in 20 years if restoration efforts fall short, experts say. Updated: Jun. 8, 2024 at 10:00 PM CDT The Louisiana island chain is in danger of being totally ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana’s Chandeleur Islands for first time in three quarters of a century. The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Louisiana’s Chandeleur Islands, a 50-mile-long arc of sand and sea grass, have long been in a state of decline. However, coastal activists hope the discovery of a highly ...

Additional nests may be discovered on the Chandeleur Islands as monitoring continues and hatchlings emerge, the news release said. The nesting season peaks in June and July, and eggs take 50 to 60 ...

For the first time in three-quarters of a century, sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana’s Chandeleur Islands. The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) ...

The turtles are back at Chandeleur Islands. And that’s great news not only for the endangered reptiles but for Louisiana’s endangered coast and the people who live near it.

Loggerheads were discovered nesting in Grand Isle in 2015, approximately 80 miles from the Chandeleur Islands. At the time, it was the first confirmed sea turtle nesting on the coast of Louisiana ...