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Turtle Tracks: August 7, 2022
August 12, 2022
Each year, The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Marine Turtle Program studies the life histories, population biology, ecology, behavior, and migrations of sea turtles. There…
TURTLE TRACKS: A rare wonder found on a Boca Grande beach
August 5, 2022
This week on turtle patrol, a Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association patrol volunteer was stunned to discover a very unusual hatchling. On rare occasion, an anomaly such as this poses a unique challenge…
ECOWATCH: Migratory monarch butterfly: going, going … gone?
August 5, 2022
“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Pinterest Quotes-Butterflies
How many of us have had the…
TURTLE TRACKS: All that data collecting must be tiring
July 29, 2022
The Statewide Nesting Beach Survey (SNBS) program was initiated in 1979 under a cooperative agreement between the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the U.S. Fish and Wildli…
DOG LIFE: A billion dollar industry
July 29, 2022
People have a tendency to overdo on everything; be a toy, treats, foods, collars etc … the dog product business which is a billion dollar industry caters more to the people’s needs than that of th…
ECOWATCH: Sharks are not bad guys … we are
July 29, 2022
“The odds of being attacked and killed by a shark are 1 in 3,748,067
(0.000026 percent), which means that there are 18 diseases
and ac…
Turtle tracks: Turtle facts you might not know
July 21, 2022
Have you ever wondered what kind of data the The Boca Grande Sea Turtle Patrol Team with its 26 volunteers documents? Specific data of every single sea turtle nest on the Island including their GPS…