Number of sea turtle nests on Florida coasts exploding, even tripling in some regions, conservationists say

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:27:26 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://abcnews.go.com/US/number-sea-turtle-nests-florida-coasts-exploding-tripling/story?id=104280070>

"Turtles are once again proving that slow and steady wins the race.

Decades after initiating protections for the turtles that nest on Florida's
southeast coast — the densest nesting region in the world — conservationists
are now witnessing the fruits of their labor as the number of turtle nests
increased exponentially all over the state.

While the entire state is seeing a record number of sea turtle nests this
season, the numbers have tripled since last year in Space Coast, Florida, a
72-mile span of beach on Florida's central east coast near Kennedy Space Center
and Cape Canaveral, experts told ABC News.

So far in 2023, Space Coast has recorded a whopping 20,545 in loggerhead nests,
31,893 green sea turtle nests, 61 leatherback nests and three Kemp's Ridley
nests, with a total count of more than 52,500 nests in that area alone,
according to the Space Coast Office of Tourism and the Canaveral National
Seashore."

Via Future Crunch:
<https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-women-rights-france-ntds-africa-bears-europe/>

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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