Sea turtle nesting on track for a record-setting year.
But artificial lighting continues to threaten hatchlings on town beaches during nesting season.

by William Kelly
Communications Coordinator

This year’s sea-turtle nesting season could yield a record number of nests statewide, a state sea-turtle biologist told a Palm Beach audience earlier this month.

Robin Trindell, biological administrator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, was among a group of officials at Town Hall on Aug. 24 for the annual stakeholder meeting of the Palm Beach Island Beach Management Agreement.

“In certain parts of the state, and for the state as a whole, it looks like we’re going to pass previous record numbers for loggerheads and for green turtles,” Trindell said. “I think we’re going to top 80,000 green turtle nests, which is a new record, and perhaps over 100,000 loggerhead nests.