Sentences with phrase «sea turtles nesting on»

If you come at the right time of year, you can observe the sea turtles nesting on the beach.

The number of loggerhead sea turtles nesting on the refuge has steadily increased in the past few decades, reaching 1,100 in 2014.

The researchers focused on leatherback sea turtles nesting on St. Kitts, an island in the West Indies southeast of Puerto Rico.

For a more adventurous day trip, ferries and seaplanes depart from nearby Key West, carrying visitors 68 nautical miles to Dry Tortugas National Park, where sea turtles nest on secluded beaches.

In all, five species of endangered sea turtles nest on Tortuguero's beaches, with most of the action happening between July and October.

During the summer months (December to February) sea turtles nest on the beaches.

Four species of sea turtles nest on Aruba: The Leatherback, the Loggerhead, the Green and the Hawksbill.

The Tico Times in Costa Rica has been providing valuable updates since the murder late last week of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 - year - old guardian of sea turtle nests on Moín Beach on the country's Caribbean coast near the town of Limón.

Not exact matches

To the North, you have the Sunshine Coast, with Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo (an hour north); Mon Repos Turtle Centre, where you can watch sea turtles nest and hatch, depending on the season; Fraser Island; and access to the Southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef from the Town of 1770 (About 6 hours north of Brisbane).

To determine whether this was so, the team tracked leatherback sea turtles» behavior on St. Kitts during the 2008 nesting season, from May through July.

«Not only mammals — the sea off Cuba was so thick with 1,000 - pound green turtles that his boats practically ran aground on them.»

Not all dead turtles strand on beaches, especially young animals, and some decay at sea.

On the beaches, there are also nesting sea turtles and as you go inland, many, many species, including jaguars and tapirs.

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

Specifically, they looked at two long - term warming and cooling cycles whose effect on sea turtles hadn't been investigated, one in the Pacific where Japanese turtles spend their formative years, and another in the Atlantic, where young Floridian turtles live.

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

Humans are pushing sea turtles to the brink of extinction by entangling them in fishing gear, tossing plastic garbage into their habitats, and building resorts on prime nesting beaches, among other affronts.

Tens of thousands of Kemp's ridley sea turtles were thought to be nesting on the day the film was shot in 1947.

It was estimated by some who viewed the original black - and - white footage that there were more than 40,000 nesting Kemp's ridley sea turtles on the beach that day.

The results from her study were incorporated into a vulnerability assessment framework to investigate the cumulative impact of multiple climatic processes on sea turtles nesting grounds.

The site includes information on the animal's nesting practices, special resources for younger students, a comprehensive list of threats to sea turtle health and safety, detailed accounts of the status of many types of sea turtles, and much more.

She also participated in a Spay and Neuter program in Mazunte, Mexico; this program reduces the local pet population and promotes the survival of endangered sea turtles that nest on the coast.

NEST too is worthy of distinction as an all - volunteer 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and conservation of sea turtles and other marine wildlife on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Akumal — which means «place of the turtles» in Mayan — is a nesting and feeding site for green and loggerhead turtles which graze on the sea grasses found off the Yucatan coast.

343 - room eco-friendly hotel and five bungalows constructed on a 16th - century lava flow, currently the nesting ground for endangered sea turtles thanks... Read More

For us it didn't make sense, so Evelyn and I played on the beach while Matt sought out the sea turtles in the water.

Don't be at all surprised if a large sea turtle comes up and finds just the right spot on the beach to perch for hours.

From Bundaberg it is a short drive to Mon Repos Regional Park, home to the largest concentration of nesting sea turtles on the eastern Australian mainland.

(Don't forget to pick up a necklace with a sea turtle on it from a local gift shop!)

Scenic Highlights: One night on Santa Cruz, three nights cruising through the Galápagos National Park aboard the Xavier, visit to see the giant tortoises, watching three species of boobies and two species of frigatebirds nesting together at Punta Pitt, snorkelling with rays and sea turtles in the shadow of Kicker Rock, witnessing the towering volcanic cliffs and the dark - sand beaches of Santiago island.

In summer, loggerhead and leatherback turtles come out of the sea to nest on the Sodwana beaches.

Koh Tarutao — This island has both rugged mountain and jungle scenery and, if Carolann had her way, there's a chance to see some sea turtles as Koh Tarutao has a popular breeding and nesting ground on one of its shores!

The turtles use this pristine location as nesting grounds and spend their days munching on the sea grass just a hundred meters or so from the shores.

343 - room eco-friendly hotel and five bungalows constructed on a 16th - century lava flow, currently the nesting ground for endangered sea turtles thanks to the hotel's rehabilitation program.

the Gulf Islands National Seashore, which stretches for 9 miles on the western tip of Santa Rosa Island to Fort Pickens and several more miles east of Portofino Island Resort, boasts the largest concentration of nesting sea turtles and shore birds.

343 - room eco-friendly hotel and five bungalows on Hawaii's Kohala Coast, currently the nesting ground of 8 endangered sea turtles thanks to the hotel's rehabilitation program.

It is the perfect place to take first - time divers not only for all the marine life (sea turtle, yellow tails, snappers, trumpet fish, sting rays, cow fish and a wild variety of crustaceans like lobsters and shrimps) that lives on the coral reef, but also for the safety and protection that the reef and the island bring to the divers — especially to first - time divers.

The reef is not in greatest shape anywhere on Gili but there are lots of fish and we saw sea turtles almost every day.

On this Tamarindo Turtle Nesting tour, you will have the rare chance to see Olive Ridley and Green Pacific sea turtles lay their eggs, and sometimes even see the babies hatching and going out to sea!

In fact, not only is it legal, on mainland Abaco, evidence of sea turtle slaughter is everywhere.

The Hawaii Wildlife Fund sponsors a number of great volunteer programs on Maui, including activities that track and monitor hawksbill and green sea turtles in order to assess the population, protect nests, and assist injured creatures.

Opportunity to walk on the white sand beach that is one of the main nesting sites of sea turtles.

Do not walk on the beach with a flashlight or shine a light in the sea turtle's face.

The nesting beaches of the hawksbill sea turtle are Cahuita, Puerto Varga and Tortuguero on the east coast.

Illegal gillnetters, shrimp boats, nest robbers, and vehicles threaten endangered sea turtles on Playa Manzanillo, Nicoya Peninsula

Tortuguero is truly a magical destination being the most important turtle nesting site on the Caribbean for the Green Sea Turtle.

Periodically Now Sapphire participates in the release of sea turtles hatched from eggs in nests laid on the beaches here.

Over the course of today you'll go to three different snorkelling sites on the Great Barrier Reef, where you'll see sights such as clownfish, sea turtles, humphead Maori wrasse (an enormous, large - lipped fish that's very friendly), soft and hard corals in colours such as turquoise, neon pink, soft purple and bright orange, schools of parrot fish, reef crabs, barracudas, painted lobsters, Gorgonian fans, giant clams and maybe even a reef shark or two - don't worry, they're harmless.

We also educate our guests on safety precautions that should be taken during the fragile sea turtle nesting months, May through October.

Named after the fact sea turtles regularly come to nest on the beaches of this area, El Nido (the nest, in Spanish) became a 360 km ² turtle sanctuary in 1984, which was then enlarged to 900 km ² and established as a protected area named El Nido Marine Reserve Park in 1991.