Page 12 - Abacoa Community News - September '19

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Loggerhead Marinelife Center Turtle Release

Report and Photos by Penny Sheltz organization
Hundreds of residents, visitors and guests celebrate the that researches
successful rehabilitation of sea turtle patient James IV, a and rehabilitates
loggerhead turtle receiving care at Loggerhead Marinelife sea turtles. They
Center (LMC). report about
James IV got a hook in his mouth when he tried to take bait 50 injured
from a fisherman on the Juno Beach fishing pier. He arrived at sea turtles
Loggerhead Marinelife Center with other ailments including are released
wounds on his head and covered with barnacles. He has annually.
recuperated and is Al m o st
ready to return to the 2,000 hatchlings
ocean. He enjoyed are also released
his ride on a stretcher yearly into the
to the beach and his Atlantic Ocean.
walk to the ocean’s LMC also
edge and freedom. counts sea turtle
Everyone cheered as nests on the 10-mile stretch of beach from Juno
this much improved Beach to the Martin County line.
James IV headed LMC is proud that 225,000 visitors come to
back to freedom. the center on U.S. 1 in Juno Beach annually. Baby turtle hatchlings
Loggerhead
Marinelife Center
is a nonprofit

Turtles have the same organs humans have.

Fun for kids to view turtles through low windows

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