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Sea turtle nesting season will officially kick off on the islands at the end of the week. April 15 marks the first day of season, which will last through Octob
Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation staff has recently responded to five sea turtle strandings, three of which were for live turtles. Live strandings are an
The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation holds a permit for responding to and documenting sea turtle strandings on Sanibel and Captiva. A stranding refers to
SCCF marks first island nest as sea turtle season begins By TIFFANY REPECKI / trepecki@breezenewspapers.com - | May 4, 2021 SHANE ANTALICK PHOTOGRAPHY The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation documented its first sea turtle nest of the season — a loggerhead nest — on April 27 on the east end of Sanibel. UPDATE: On May 2, SCCF volunteer Rachel Walsh found the first loggerhead nest of the season for Captiva. On May 3, SCCF volunteer Nancy Riley found a second loggerhead on Captiva. Also on May 3, SCCF volunteers Diane Clark and Irene Nolan marked off the first loggerhead nest on the wes...
Aruba Today reports on the work of Foundation Turtugaruba for sea turtle conservation. Turtugaruba was founded on September 3rd, 2003 by a group of enthusiastic volunteers. Ten years earlier, in 1993, a Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan (STRAP) was introduced in Aruba and the rest of the Caribbean as an initiative of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Tom Barmes, who was working at DLVV (Department of Agriculture, Husbandry and Fishery) was one of the writers of the STRAP for Aruba, together with Karen Eckert, director of WIDECAST (Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network). ...