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SEA TURTLE
CONSERVATION
Sea turtles have been in our oceans for over
100 million years and are commonly found in
most of the world’s oceans, apart from cold
polar seas. Due to Florida’s warm and rich
environment, it makes it an ideal home for
these wonderful, amazing creatures.
We highly recommend visiting Fort
Lauderdale and Harbor Beach during sea
turtle season, which runs from March 1 to
October 31 every year. During these months
alomst 2,000 female sea turtles particularly
Loggerheads, Green, and Leatherback come
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ashore to lay eggs, typically on the same
sandy beach where they themselves hatched!
After nesting, the female sea turtle will then
head back into the warm ocean. It then takes
roughly two months for these eggs to hatch.
Threatened by overharvesting of their eggs,
hunting of adults, and loss of nesting beach
sites, Green and Leatherback turtles are listed
as “endangered,” meaning they are in danger
of extinction.
However, it’s the Loggerhead turtle, which
is the most common sea turtle that nest in
Florida, making up almost 90% of nests in the
sunshine state, that are listed as a
“threatened” species, meaning they are likely
to become endangered in the future.
