The Sea
Turtles patrol on St. George Island has just released its final summary for the
2015 Sea turtle nesting season and said overall we saw a lot more turtle nests
this year than last.
There were 212
loggerhead sea turtle nests on St. George Island this year – that’s up from 123
last year.
There were 240
nests the year before that.
There were
also 8 green turtle nests on the island this year.
Nearly 200 of
the nests produced hatchlings and almost 17 thousand sea turtles successfully
and made their way from St. George Island to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Sea Turtle
patrol said 5 nests were completely washed away this year, and 5 were destroyed
by coyotes.
Of the nests
that successfully hatched, 21 were affected by man-made lights – disorienting hundreds
of Hatchlings.
On the
positive side, people are showing a growing interest in how to protect the
turtles.
Over 1000
people turned out for one of the free sea turtle presentations offered at the
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve during this year’s nesting
season.
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