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Page 6, Jupiter Ocean Mile
Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s Nesting Season

Ranks Third In Its Thirty Years Of Surveying Sea Turtles

Despite the world’s seismic shift, Loggerhead Marinelife Need a reason to each year. The center’s conservation team works with 90
Center (LMC) cataloged another successful nesting season celebrate? The center and its local and international organizations across six continents to
on its 9.5-mile stretch of beach, which spans from the research department can give form partnerships and share conservation initiatives and best
northern Palm Beach County line to the northern boundary you 16,935. For more ways practices that are core to its mission of ocean conservation.
of John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. Between Feb. 28 to support sea turtle research, The center is expanding and has launched its Waves of
and Oct. 31, LMC documented 16,935 sea turtle nests. please consider donating to Progress capital expansion campaign, designed to accelerate
Altogether, the center’s research department recorded 286 LMC’s Annual Fund. and amplify LMC’s conservation and education impact.
leatherback, 13,059 loggerhead and 3,590 green sea turtle Loggerhead Marinelife When complete, the facility will offer one of the world’s most
nests. Center advanced and unique experiences for guests and scientific
“This year marks the third-highest nest count since Loggerhead Marinelife partners. For more information, visit www.marinelife.org or
we first began surveying sea turtle nests in the 1980s,” Center (LMC) is a nonprofit sea call (561) 627-8280.
said LMC’s Director of Research, Dr. Justin Perrault. turtle research, rehabilitation
“In general, we hope that beachgoers abide by laws and and educational institution Photos courtesy of Loggerhead Marinelife Center.
regulations surrounding nesting sea turtles. However, that promotes conservation Dr. Justin Perrault, nighttime Acquired through a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
that is not always the case given female sea turtles can be of ocean ecosystems with surveys Commission (FWC) permit.
scared backed into the water or impeded by beach debris, a focus on threatened and
sandcastles, holes, flashlights and human presence.” endangered sea turtles. The
According to LMC’s own data, loggerhead nesting center features an on-site
success on Juno Beach was 60 percent during the two-month hospital, research laboratory,
beach closures due to COVID-19 from mid-March to mid- educational exhibits and
May. When beaches reopened, nesting success dropped to aquariums, and also operates
48 percent. In other words, the data showed that there were the Juno Beach Pier, which
a smaller proportion of false crawls during closures, which hosts world-class angling and
is when nesting mothers crawl onto the beach and return to sightseeing. Situated on one Nighttime nesting
the water without laying eggs. of the world’s most important
Despite nesting season being officially over on Oct. sea turtle nesting beaches, Loggerhead Marinelife Center
31, hatchlings are still anticipated to be observed on local is open daily and hosts over 350,000 guests free-of-charge Nesting emergence
beaches in the next few months. It is advisable to avoid
touching unhatched eggs, properly dispose of debris so as
to not leave it behind on the beach and fill in holes in the
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