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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.
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 ...
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.
Part of the refuge is inside the town of Jupiter Island, while the rest is in the unincorporated areas of Martin County. The 1,035-acre (4.19 km 2) refuge was established in 1969, to protect the loggerhead and green sea turtles. It is administered as part of the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. [2]
A green turtle crawls to the ocean after laying her eggs on the beach at Coral Cove Park in Tequesta, Florida on February 24, 2020.
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.
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.