Record Breaking Sea Turtle Nesting Season!
The LMC research team documented a total of 28,179 sea turtle crawls on all of the beaches we monitor this year. That is a record season for the Center! We also broke the green turtle nest record on Juno Beach. In addition, we had the record latest nest laid on October 23rd.
Juno Beach (6.1 miles)
4,187 Loggerhead nests, 1,119 Green turtle nests (Record),
133 Leatherback nests
Jupiter (1.6 miles)
1,032 Loggerhead nests, 146 Green turtle nests,
35 Leatherback nests
Tequesta (1.9 miles)
2,975 Loggerhead nests, 661 Green turtle nests,
22 Leatherback nests
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