Links
For your convenience we've put the most important links at your fingertips in the side panels on each page of our website. This page is a broad collection of other interesting links relating to sea turtles, the environment and organizations that support both. If you have a link to share that isn't listed please suggest it. DUVAL COUNTY and VICINITY- City of Jacksonville Clean It Up Green It Up campaign: Our co-sponsor for beach clean ups, including the popular 5th of July clean up.
- First Coast Surfrider: A non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of our world's oceans, waves and beaches.
- Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park: A Jacksonville city park, on the ocean and a sea turtle nesting beach that borders our northern jurisdiction. A Blue Wave Beach.
- GTM-NERR Reserve: FL DEP website for the Guana - Tolomato - Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve.
- Friends of the GTM-NERR Reserve: A private non-profit citizen organization established to support and enhance environmental education, stewardship of natural and cultural resources. Many sea turtle-related events are hosted at the Reserve's Education Center.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, North Florida Field Office: Excellent source of sea turtle information.
- Marine Science Center: Rehab facility in Ponce Inlet for sea turtles and sea birds. Where many of our ill and injured ones go.
- Georgia Sea Turtle Center: New rehab facility on Jekyll Island, GA. Our most recent rescues have gone here.
- NE FL Sierra Club: Focusing on preserving public lands and other environmental issues.
- Caribbean Conservation Corporation/Sea Turtle Survival League: A not-for-profit organization based in Gainesville, founded by Dr. Archie Carr, famed sea turtle researcher and conservationist.
- Florida Open Beaches: A non-profit organization protecting beaches and your right to access them.
- Florida Power & Light (FPL)-Endangered Species-Sea Turtles: Good resource for several protected species.
- Sea Turtle Preservation Society: A not-for-profit educational organization in Brevard County.
- Loggerhead Marinelife Center of Juno Beach: Non-profit sea turtle rehabilitation & education campus located on the ocean in Palm Beach County
- Sea Turtles - Naples Beach: Excellent and concise summary of the nesting process, not specific to southwest FL.
- The Turtle Hospital: Located in Marathon Key, focusing on rehabilitation, education, research and environmental issues.
- Florida Sea Grant: Creating a sustainable coastal economy and environment.
- Sea Turtle Specialty Vehicle Tag: Branch office index for FL Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
- Florida Defenders Of The Environment: A science-based defender of Florida's Natural Environment.
- The Ocean Conservancy: Promotes healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposes practices that threaten ocean life and human life.
- The Nature Conservancy: To preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth.
- SaveOurEnvironment.Org: A national coalition for the environment.
- SeaTurtle.org: Non-profit organization dedicated to providing online resources and solutions in support of sea turtle conservation and research.
- National Save The Sea Turtle Foundation: Created for the protection of the environment, promotion of scientific investigation and to contribute to environmental education in our communities.
- Turtle Trax: Created by husband/wife sport divers to promote sea turtle awareness.
- The Turtle Guy: A sea turtle advocate.
- Greenpeace: Promotes solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
- USACE Sea Turtle Data Warehouse: Info about sea turtles and dredging/beach projects in the U.S.
- Artificial Lights & Hatchlings: Learn why it's so important to keep the beach dark.
- Reducing The Impact Of Artificial Light: FPL guide to help everyday folks lessen their lighting impact.
- Wildlife Lighting Approved Fixtures: FWC approved lighting fixtures. Get some free!!
- Shield Loan Program: More free lighting shields available here.
- Turtle Safe Lighting: Provides lighting solutions for coastal areas likely to be utilized by sea turtles for nesting.
- Beach Cam: First Coast News webcam at 2nd Ave. and 3rd. St. S., Jacksonville Beach.
- Jax Surf Cam: Neptune Beach.
- Stormtrack: First Coast News.
- Doppler Radar for NE FL: Weather.com.
- Tide Data for Mayport: National Weather Service.
- Tide Data for Jacksonville Beach: National Weather Service.
- National Hurricane Center Tropical Prediction: National Weather Service.
- The Pollution Information Site: Get an in-depth pollution report for your county, covering air, water, chemicals and more.
- Printing Impressions: They print our t-shirts and hatchling decals.
- Custom Engraved Products: They make our wooden hatchling ornaments and medallions for the surfer necklaces.
- Funderwater: Home decor retailer of "Cool Coastal Styles."
- Kritters In The Mailbox: Bills itself as the "animal lovers gift superstore". We have socks from here.
- Sherman's Lagoon: Syndicated comic stip with a sea turtle character named Fillmore.
We would like to acknowledge the following individuals, businesses and organizations for their special contributions to BSTP and/or sea turtle conservation. Please patronize them if you can.
- Allstate Insurance Company includes BSTP as a recipient of their Annual Giving Campaign which matches 15% of employee donations.
- Beaches A1A Parrot Head Club, Inc. holds their annual Earlene Holton Memorial Polar Parrot Plunge to benefit BSTP.
- First Street Gallery and the artists, for their annual sea turtle art exhibit which benefits the patrol.
- Kaitlan Radoycis from Manhattan Beach, Calif., made and sold grocery totes in 2007 to encourage bag recycling. Kaitlan donated $1.00 per bag sold to BSTP. (Kaitlan's aunt and local BSTP supporter, Mary Beth Lonergan presented the check to BSTP).
- Katharine (Kate) Rowe of Smith, Gambrell & Russell.
- Shugar Shack Chocolatier in Jacksonville, FL donates a portion of sales from their chocolate-pecan sea turtle candies.
- Turtle Island Natural Foods in Atlantic Beach. Their Save A Bag campaign encourages patrons to use recyclable bags in lieu of plastic bags. The market makes a donation to an environmental group for each plastic bag saved. Four thousand nine hundred thirty bags were saved during the BSTP campaign!
- Untamed Adventures, an outdoor group for women periodically hosts educational sea turtle seminars.
- Wachovia Bank for its employee volunteerism and Foundation grants policy.
- Wave Masters Society, a not-for-profit group of local surfers that periodically hold charitable events, of which BSTP has been a recipient.
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