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Hernando

Hernando

“Hernando” – aka LK-KLC-120924-01 – is making some forward motion in recovery!  After months of displaying neurological deficiencies and requiring force feeding to maintain weight, Hernando began consistently accepting food from tongs over the...

Hooked on a Feeling

I don’t know about you, but knowing that Lou has survived ingesting a fish hook and is happily released in the ocean sure makes me feel good! Lou and 3 Kemp’s Ridleys were released near the Gulf Stream on March 29, leaving 8 residents in the rehab. All sea...

January 6-10

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...

Turtle Tetris

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...

It’s Crunch Time

We’ve had over 20 live stranded sea turtles collected in the past 3 days in the Outer Banks!  To see a map of our recent strandings, visit our friends over at Seaturtle.org: http://www.seaturtle.org/strand/summary/NC/google.shtml Once we have a chance to...