Vulnerable leatherback sea turtles are flourishing on a South Florida beach amid the coronavirus lockdown. In an April 18 Facebook post, the Loggerhead Marinelife Center said that its staff had discovered 79 leatherback and loggerhead turtle nests on a 9.5-mile stretch of beach that encompasses Juno Beach.
Some 76 of the nests were leatherback turtle nests and three were loggerhead nests, it said. Staff documented the first leatherback nest at the start of February, according to a blog post on April 17.
Around the same time last year, the staff had discovered just 41 nests. The area is one of the most densely nested sea turtle beaches in the world, according to the Loggerhead Marinelife Center. RELATED: Adorable!