Loggerhead sea turtles are nesting along
Florida's beaches in strong numbers this year, according to researchers with
the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
This year, surveyors counted 58,172
loggerhead nests along nearly 250 miles of Florida's coastline. The FWC said
this is one of the highest counts since monitoring began in 1989.
"After a steep decline in Florida
loggerhead nesting between 1998 and 2007, nesting has risen over the past five
years," Blair Witherington, a FWC research scientist, said in a statement
Friday (Oct. 19). The number of nests peaked at 59,918 in 1998 and hit a low
with 28,074 in 2007.
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