Sea Turtle

The Education Program's objectives focus on educating and providing information to the public on conservation, marine sea turtles, rehabilitation, and being good ocean stewards. The objectives are accomplished via onsite education, field trips, and virtual programs and field trips. Through our education center onsite visitors learn about our mission and programs. Visitors have access to our turtle resident center and rehabilitation hospital. In 2022, students and general public visitors to our facility learned about our mission via field trips, online, and onsite education programs.

Conservation efforts include beach patrols. nest protection, excavation, corral creating and oversight. Each year from March to September, we patrol by foot and ATV more than 50 miles of beach to watch and respond to nesting female sea turtles. In 2022, we logged thousands of patrolling hours and covered miles. Our patrolling efforts resulted in locating turtle nests, excavation, and protection of thousands of eggs and the release of hatching sea turtles. These conservation efforts are accomplished through the efforts of permanent

Our rehabilitation efforts included turtle rescues, rehabilitation, releasing turtles back to the Gulf of Mexico, and educational programs for school children and general public visiting our facilities. Our rehabilitation center provided care to sick and injured turtles, and sea turtles that live in our facility permanently. We retrieved DOA turtles and successfully released turtles into the ocean. The rehabilitation program includes providing sea turtles with medical treatment, medication, scans, surgeries, and any other treatment or rehabilitation needed to treat the injured or sick turtles.