A diet of glass for Kemp’s ridleys
By Dr. Jeff Schmid | Conservancy Environmental Research Manager Some marine turtles have a “diet of glass”, but this is not the eating disorder of hyalophagia or a circus sideshow…
Invasion of the Atomic Sunfish
By Conservancy Research Manager, Dr. Jeff Schmid The atomic sunfish has invaded our coasts! Not in the sense of a nuclear disaster followed by a monstrous creature emerging from the…
Help us battle invasive species in Southwest Florida
Invasive species are a top-tier environmental issue here in Southwest Florida. Burmese pythons are eating their way through the wildlife in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem; cane toads outcompete their native…
Sea turtle nesting: Ways you can help
How often, alone, do we expose ourselves to the midnight hour? To the boundary of civilized and savage? A ribbon of sand between the tame and turbulent, the known and…
Sea turtle numbers from Keewaydin Island
Over the years, sea turtle nesting on Keewaydin Island has started off with a bang or sometimes with a whimper. This year is the 39th year of Conservancy biologists monitoring…
So, you want to work with sea turtles?
Written By: Leif Johnson The pump shut off with a clang that echoed in the empty gas station, jolting me awake from thoughts of sea turtles I’d seen overnight. At…
A Mangrove Misunderstanding: Silent Guardians of the Coast
Read just about anything on mangrove forests and you’ll quickly learn how incredibly important these ecosystems are to all forms of life around them. However, it’s precisely the way they deliver this litany of benefits that can make them such a nightmare to walk through. These forests are the ultimate test to your depth of field, troubling even the most nimble of us, and oftentimes, while I myself stumble about; I entertain visions of James Bond attempting a “high speed” chase through here.
