Over the next few months, visitors to Alabama beaches may encounter nests, staked of with florescent ribbon and warning signs. These spots mark the nesting site of one of three species of turtles known to call Alabama’s shores, home.
They’re Green sea turtles, Kemp’s ridleys and Loggerhead turtles, which make up 95-percent of the nesting population here. The 13 sites found already this year has 2023 on pace for a record year.“I don’t want to put bad juju out there and jinx us but our highest seasons before this were 2016 and 2017. In 2017 at this same time, we had eleven nests at this point so those were our previous record setting years,” said program director for Share the Beach.
“We talked to the kids about, if we see any yellow flagging, we’re not supposed to disturb it. That’s supposed to be a sea turtle nest and just to leave it alone,” said Craig Softley of Nebraska. “It is illegal to have even pieces of eggs or sea turtle parts that you may have found on the beach, however innocently,” Johnson explained. “Those are all protected items and need to be turned in to the proper authorities.”
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