Turtle Talk Blog
Turtle Links
- CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
- Endangered Species Research
- Inwater Research Group
- Lake Jackson Ecopassage
- Marinelife Center of Juno Beach
- Mote Marine Laboratory - Sea Turtle Research
- NMFS/NOAA Office of Protected Resources
- NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Species: Loggerhead Sea Turtles
- Padre Island Sea Turtle, Inc.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
- Sea Turtle Conservancy
- Sea Turtle Preservation Society
- Seaturtle.org
- WIDECAST (Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network)
Sea turtle hatchlings need dark beaches in order to find their way into the gulf. Lights act like magnets for sea turtles! Please turn off or shield any lights visible from the beach. Better yet, use turtle-friendly Amber LED light bulbs. Close drapes after dark…even visible interior lights can lead hatchlings to their death. Your … Read more
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It is sea turtle nesting season, the time when threatened and endangered sea turtles come ashore to nest to ensure future generations of their species. Lights act like magnets to turtles! Watch and learn how you can help them to survive. Please close your drapes at night, shield or turn off any light visible from … Read more
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Here’s a wonderful video showing an early morning nest hatching on Big Hickory Island last summer.
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On April 17, 2020, a leatherback sea turtle nest was discovered on Sanibel Island. Christened ‘Juniper’, she has nested several more times since then on Sanibel and Captiva Island. Staff from the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation , in association with Florida Leatherbacks, Inc. were able to apply a satellite tracking device on her enabling us to … Read more
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Do you need to unwind from a stressful day? Get away from it all? Take a spectacular sojourn with sea turtles in their own clear, cobalt ocean home…… Enjoy!
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Sea turtles are nocturnal, meaning they nest at night. Every now and then, however, we are treated with a daytime nesting turtle, offering us a wonderful opportunity to watch as she traverses the beach after having completed her nest. Alejandro shared this glimpse of a loggerhead sea turtle as she returns to the gulf on … Read more
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Turtle Time, Inc., begins its 30th year of monitoring local nesting sea turtles. Turtle Time has permission to have its volunteers walk the beaches and monitor turtles even though the beaches are currently closed to the public because of the the COVID-19 pandemic. Pictured below are Turtle Time volunteers Beth Zuller on Bonita Beach and … Read more
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Congratulations to the fourth and fifth grade Junior Girl Scouts Troop 2055 for earning a Bronze Award for their project about sea turtles! Under the guidance of Gina Pabalan and Jignasha Jani, the girls produced a wonderful video about sea turtles, explaining why they are important, the threats that they encounter and what we can … Read more
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An 180 kilogram turtled named Yoshi has excited scientists, who tracked her remarkable journey halfway around the world after she was released from 20 years in captivity. It’s believed the loggerhead turtle may be Australian, after she made a determined 37,000-kilometre swim across the Indian Ocean to a turtle nesting site on Western Australia’s Pilbara … Read more
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For the first time ever, we have documented multiple green nests on Bonita Beach and one on Fort Myers Beach. The larger hatchling is the green (Chelonia mydas). The other two are loggerheads (Caretta caretta). It is normal to see variations of colors of the carapace (shell) of hatchlings within a nest. Greens get their … Read more
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