Page 10 - Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens - September '19

Page 10, Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens
Loggerhead Marinelife Center Breaks All-Time

Sea Turtle Nest Count Record

As of Tuesday, Aug. 6, Loggerhead Marinelife How To Help: • Adopt a nest:
Center’s (LMC) research biologists recorded an all-time To help LMC To celebrate this
record-breaking sea turtle nest count of 19,580 nests celebrate the record year ’s record
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(and counting). The center’s last record-breaking nesting breaking sea turtle nesting season
season was recorded in 2017 with a total of 19,085 nests. nesting season: p e o p l e a r e
Sea turtle nesting season in Palm Beach County runs • Blue Friends encouraged to
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from March 1 to Oct. 31 annually. Although the center Society Beach adopt a sea turtle
happens.
has experienced record-breaking nesting numbers in Cleanup: Join LMC nest. For more
previous years, other years have shown a lower yield. For staff and volunteers information on
covered?
comparison, the 2018 nesting season resulted in a total on Aug. 17 at 8:30 t h i s pr og ra m
of just over 11,900 sea turtles nests. With three months a.m. on the center’s pl e a se vi si t :
left of nesting season, our researchers expect the nesting back deck for our https://marinelife.org/help/adopt/.
numbers to continue to increase by a few more thousand monthly Blue Friends Society Beach Cleanup where Additionally, please remember to practice sea turtle-
nests. LMC’s research biologists will continue to mark and you can help reduce debris on one of the world’s most
monitor sea turtle nests until the end of nesting season, important sea turtle nesting beaches. Loggerhead Marinelife Center on page 11
which ends on Oct. 31.
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LMC biologists estimate that over 1,367,489 sea turtle
hatchlings have been produced from nests laid thus far on
our beaches. With four full-time members of the research
staff, seven seasonal morning technicians, two night Wills • Trusts • Estate Planning • Probate
technicians, five morning interns and one night intern,
LMC’s research staff members are able to monitor a 9.5- Taxation • Real Estate • Corporations
mile stretch of beach in Palm Beach County. This specific
stretch of beach is one of the most densely nested sea
turtle nesting beaches in the world. LMC, a nonprofit sea
turtle hospital, research, education and ocean conservation
institution is located in Juno Beach.
Director of Research, Dr. Justin Perrault commented
on the success of LMC’s research efforts and the record-
breaking nest count, “This news is quite exciting,
especially since season is nowhere near over, and we are
still expecting a few thousand more nests this season. The
recent rise in sea turtle nest counts are worth celebrating
and are likely due to protection measures, enacted several
decades ago. We have to remind ourselves that there is
still much work to be done to combat existing threats to
sea turtles, including reducing plastic pollution, assessing
habitat loss, and improving water quality.”
While nesting numbers are at an all-time high this
year, it’s vital to remember that sea turtles continue to Diane L. KarLiK
face threats, namely plastic pollution. Currently, 100
percent of post-hatchlings who are admitted to The Sea
Turtle Hospital at LMC have ingested plastic. In addition
to plastic pollution, sea turtles are faced with threats of Tel: (561) 625-5220
record heat temperatures. The record heat may skew sea 3450 Northlake Boulevard Suite 210 Fax: (561) 625-5201• Mobile: (561) 797-5004
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number of males.