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Sea turtle nesting season in 2023 was a record breaker for coastal communities in Broward County, officials said Monday. The season runs between March 1 and Oct. 31, and is essential for the ...
Loggerheads, leatherbacks and green sea turtles still left nearly 15,000 nests this season along the beaches of Tequesta, Jupiter and Juno Beach.
Florida’s 2023 turtle nesting season, which runs from March through October, is only halfway through and has already reached record-breaking numbers.
The Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) System, located along a twenty-mile (30 km) section of coastline from Melbourne Beach to Wabasso Beach, Florida, along State Road A1A. The 900 acre (3.6 km 2) refuge was established in 1991, to protect the loggerhead and green sea turtles.
There were just over 9,390 nests along Palm Beach’s Atlantic coastline for the 2023 nesting season, Perretta said. Those numbers far eclipsed the previous year's total of 7,303.
The Florida softshell turtle is a large turtle with a flattened, pancake-like body, a long neck, an elongated head with a long snorkel-like nose, and large webbed feet, each with three claws. While most turtles have hard shells composed of scutes , the Florida softshell turtle has a cartilaginous carapace covered in leathery skin.
The beaches of South Florida serve as a nesting habitat for the loggerhead, green, and leatherback sea turtles. Unfortunately, every species of sea turtle alive today is either classified as a threatened or endangered species. Gumbo Limbo works together with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to protect the area's sea turtles.
JUNO BEACH – It’s turtle walk season, a time when people can witness one of the Atlantic Coast environment’s most remarkable moments: sea turtle nesting.. Local residents and visitors in ...