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Outdoors, Sea turtles

Students paint environmental watercolors for cause

Feb 6, 2018 – SUN contributor
August 1, 2017
By Cindy Lane

Eliza Ann, turtles, love AMI

It’s a record sea turtle nesting season on Anna Maria Island so far this year, but Suzi Fox, director of Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring, seems as thrilled about one particula…
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July 25, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Eliza Ann release

Eliza Ann off to the turtle races

Eliza Ann is warmed up and ready to race beginning Aug. 1 in the Sea Turtle Conservancy’s Tour de Turtle migration marathon. The race’s object is to gather information on sea turtle migration, inc…
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May 17, 2017
By SUN contributor
April 27, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Loggerhead hatchling

Turtle Watch preps volunteers in spring training

HOLMES BEACH – Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring is starting earlier and doing things differently this sea turtle season to safeguard sea turtles better than ever. Volunteer…
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April 27, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Turtle nest

Longboat Key goes darker for turtles

LONGBOAT KEY – Turtles will not see as much light on Longboat Key when the town begins enforcing its new turtle lighting ordinance beginning May 1. Like the three Anna Maria Island cities that hav…
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April 10, 2017
By Cindy Lane
sea turtle release

Sea turtle release sets Mike free

Mike the sea turtle is on her way to the wild blue after her Monday release from Bayfront Park in Anna Maria. The female loggerhead sea turtle clumsily lumbered across the sand into the shallows o…
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June 5, 2013
By Cindy Lane

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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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