2017 Summary of activity for The Turtle Patrol

Clarence has been hard at work summarizing our 2017 efforts. One Stat we haven't captured yet is total hours of effort, we will need to do a better job of recording that for 2018

Hello fellow Turtle Patrollers, our combined efforts thus far have produced the following results: :)

We have gathered data on 274 locations.
We have discovered 42 breeding areas.
We have documented 113 nests. 
We have recorded the predation of 70 nests.
We have located 40 successful nests.
We have noted 1 failed nest not associated with predation.
We have assigned unknown status to 2 nests.
And most importantly we have saved almost 200 turtles! (191 to be exact).

Thank You all for a job well done and I look forward to getting out looking for turtles with each of you in 2018. We have a lot of exciting things planned for this year. The map below represents the counties where we have carried out surveys thus far. More news and plans for Spring Surveys to pop up soon. 

As you can see, we also did patrols in 10 of the counties here. We covered a lot of ground, and I am certain will cover even more in the upcoming year. 

I have dubbed 2018-- The year of growth!

Happy turtling!

:)