by Christian.Legner | Jan 25, 2013 | N.E.S.T. Release
It takes many moving parts to take a sea turtle from being found on the beach to being released in the ocean. One of our fantastic partners is the United States Coast Guard – not only are they out there every day keeping humans safe on the water, they are...
by Christian.Legner | Jan 21, 2013 | N.E.S.T. Rehab Residents, Rehab Center
Greetings rehab supporters! We’d like to introduce more of our current rehab residents. Once again we were fortunate to be able to transfer some of our admissions to other facilities to lessen our overflow so they won’t be shown individually on the...
by Christian.Legner | Jan 16, 2013 | N.E.S.T. Rehab Residents
Now that things have slowed down a little, we’d like to introduce some of our new patients. These turtles were all found stranded on January 3-5, 2013. Please meet: “Neptune” LK-JMG-130103-02 Kemp’s Ridley, 15.7lbs: Neptune was found...
by Christian.Legner | Jan 13, 2013 | N.E.S.T. Release, Rehab Center
48 cold stunned sea turtles since Christmas Day. Just where do we put all of them? When space is filled in our small rehab center, we take over some room in the Aquarium quarantine facility. When we have a crisis event that brings in large numbers of turtles we turn...
by Niko | Jan 9, 2013 | Education, Fundraiser, T-Shirt Contest, Turtle Art
N.E.S.T. uses T-Shirt sales to support its rehabilitation efforts and its nest monitoring activities. We are looking for a youthful take on Sea Turtle Conservation for our 2013 Youth T-Shirt. For more information about the 2013 Youth T-Shirt Design Contest please...