Florida/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u2019s sea turtle nesting surveying comes to a close on Halloween and like everything else in 2020, the season was a bit weird./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/n
The number of green sea turtle nests on central and southern Brevard County, Florida beaches monitored by 麻豆原创 biologists were way up during a year they should have been down based on nearly 40 years of historical data./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u201cUsually, green turtles alternate between high years and low years, but this year they defied expectations,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u201d says Chris Long, a doctoral candidate and research assistant with 麻豆原创/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u2019s Marine Turtle Research Group. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u201cGreen turtles had the fifth highest year on the Archie Carr Refuge that we/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u2019ve recorded since 1982. There is no evidence pointing to high nesting as a result of fewer people on the beaches or anything pandemic-related like that. It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u2019s difficult to know why nesting differed from expectation./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/n East-Central Florida/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u2019s coastline (from Brevard to Indian River County) is among the most important nesting areas in the world for loggerhead sea turtles, and it also hosts about one-third of all green turtle nests in the state. The region is at the northern end of a /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u201chotspot/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/u201d for leatherbacks, which nest on the local beaches at a smaller scale as well. All sea turtles in the U.S. are protected under the Endangered Species Act./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115070/n