Manatee bones are extra heavy and dense, and yet they fracture more easily than your bones. Check out this fractured bone and learn what Dr. Gerry Pinto and Lucas Meers have to say about it. Resource links Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Florida Manatee Program Where can you see manatees in Florida? Information for […]

Vilanzo the manatee was beached and cold stressed, but got some new friends while he was rescued, rehabilitated, and released back into the wild by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens – watch his story here. Resource Links Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Manatee Critical Care Center (Where Vilanzo […]

  Watch students and faculty from Jacksonville University, The Foundation Academy, and The Bolles School make drifter buoys and track ocean currents with NOAA satellites. Resource Links Transcript More information about the drifters in the video Jacksonville University The Foundation Academy The Bolles School JU Students Voyage Atlantic Ocean Through Tracking Buoy River Life: How […]

Get a preview of the stories in parts 2-8 of this Florida Sea Turtles video series.  This video series is comprised of the individual chapters from our full-length Sea Turtles… Threats and Solutions feature for easier viewing. Sea Turtles can use all the help they can get. Learn about efforts to conserve these animals (and […]

Visit the Sea Turtle Conservancy to see how laws and technological advances have helped to save sea turtles in part 2 of our Florida Sea Turtles video series.  This video series is comprised of the individual chapters from our full-length Sea Turtles… Threats and Solutions feature for easier viewing. Companion Guide Transcript

Learn about The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s statewide Sea Turtle Nesting and Monitoring program in part 3 of our Florida Sea Turtles video series.

Join a Sea Turtle Patrol in Ponte Vedra Beach as these volunteers conduct surveys of sea turtle nests in part 4 of our Florida Sea Turtles video series.  This video series is comprised of the individual chapters from our full-length Sea Turtles… Threats and Solutions feature for easier viewing. Continue Reading to view all sea turtle videos […]

Not all sea turtle nests are success stories, as you can learn from part 5 of our Florida Sea Turtles video series.  This video series is comprised of the individual chapters from our full-length Sea Turtles… Threats and Solutions feature for easier viewing. Companion Guide Transcript  

Watch baby loggerhead sea turtles get rescued from being trapped in a nest surrounded by compacted sand, in part 6 of our Florida Sea Turtles video series.  This video series is comprised of the individual chapters from our full-length Sea Turtles… Threats and Solutions feature for easier viewing. Companion Guide Transcript  

Follow Pip the endangered loggerhead sea turtle as she leaves Ponte Vedra Beach as a young hatchling, grows to be a magnificent adult that must elude sharks, and migrate vast distances in order to come back to the beach she hatched on to start a new generation of loggerheads in part 7 of our Florida […]