Tag: sea turtles

BY DENISE JUERGENS,ARLENE HALL BGSTA SECRETARY If you are comparing the BGSTA’s weekly turtle stats listed each week in this paper, you may have noticed a slight increase in both the loggerhead...

Adoptive ‘parents’ for nests across Gasparilla Island BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY As of this week, the 2025 sea turtle nesting season for the BGSTA is down to single digits, with only...

BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY If you’ve watched the local TV news or read a local newspaper these past couple of weeks, there have been many stories about the impacts and recovery associated...

BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY YAWN. Pardon me, but the sea turtle nesting season for us patrollers is such a boring time. No new crawls have occurred since August 31 and the current nests we...

BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY As I’m writing this article, BGSTA turtle patrollers have completed 278 inventories involving the sea turtle nests on Gasparilla Island. In previous articles,...

BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY Wow, the 2025 sea turtle nesting season is sure winding down quickly now! If you’ve been tracking the weekly statistics in the Boca Beacon, you may have noticed...