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The center hosts astronomy nights, [7] guided beach walks, [8] Boy Scout and Girl Scout programs, Eco Tours (SWIM), [9] evening turtle walks, [10] hatchling releases, [11] a marine summer camp program, [12] sea turtle releases, [13] water quality monitoring, [14] beach cleanups [2] and many other education programs, activities and events.
Mote Marine Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit, marine research organization based on City Island in Sarasota, Florida, with additional campuses in eastern Sarasota County, Boca Grande, Florida, and the Florida Keys. Founded in 1955 by Eugenie Clark in Placida, Florida, it was known as the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory until 1967. The ...
The facility opened in 2013, using the building of an old ranger station that had been used by the state park service when the marine park was still a state park.The Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center (NBSTCC) is a working conservation and education center open to the public on Navarre Beach, Florida.
Officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission rescued dozens of sea turtles as recent freezing temperatures compromised the health and well-being of the reptiles.. A historic winter storm ...
Three sea turtles are back in their natural habitats after being rehabilitated at a facility in Florida. All three rehabbed at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium on Florida's Gulf Coast after being ...
In 2005, Sea Turtle, Inc. received a one-flippered Atlantic green sea turtle that they named Allison. [7] Four years later, intern Tom Wilson developed a prosthesis for Allison that allowed her to swim freely. [7] This was one of the first sea turtle prostheses in the world, and only three other sea turtles in the world are aided by prostheses ...
The Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP), founded in 1989, is a project of Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN), a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization with a goal of protecting endangered sea turtles from human-caused threats at nesting beaches and in the ocean.
The students worked under the guidance of Callie Veelenturf, who founded a group that works to protect leatherback turtles and pushed for a new law in Panama that guarantees sea turtles the legal ...