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Dr. Peter Bonutti points to ruts adjacent to a sea turtle nest on the beach in Manalapan. Photos provided by Peter Bonutti

By John Pacenti

Manalapan officials are trying to get to the bottom of which mechanical beach raking company is leaving deep r

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Spring is the season of comings and goings. Winter visitors will soon be leaving South County as they do every year. Even the moon left us, hiding in Earth’s shadow for about an hour on March 14 in the only lunar eclipse we could see here in 2025. 

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Down year for nests hints at another surge in 2025

By Steve Plunkett

Following a record-breaking 2023, people who monitor sea turtle nests up and down south Palm Beach County’s coast faced an easier workload this season. And the season, which offici

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12754816079?profile=RESIZE_710xCrows check out a nest on the beach in Ocean Ridge, while another (below, right) flies overhead. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Rich Pollack12754819901?profile=RESIZE_400x

The crows know.

Along our beaches, the loud and large black birds show off their smarts by trackin

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By Steve Plunkett                                                                                                

The year 2023 was not a good one for the nonprofit group originally founded to support the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton.

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12213933269?profile=RESIZE_710xABOVE: Rebecca Germany, sea turtle conservation assistant at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, excavates a loggerhead nest in Boca Raton three days after the eggs had hatched.
BELOW LEFT: A baby loggerhead makes its way to the ocean after being rescued by

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11063071671?profile=RESIZE_710xIt could take months before turtles are back at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center. File photo

 

Letters to the Editor: Nonprofit chair hails ‘exciting times’ ahead for Gumbo Limbo|Retired leader of turtle facility laments ‘black eye’ for city|Former voluntee

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11009465090?profile=RESIZE_710xStaff and volunteers at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center had to move nine sea turtles to other facilities because Gumbo Limbo no longer had a license to treat them. Photo provided

 

By Steve Plunkett

Gumbo Limbo Nature Center’s injured and recuperating sea

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