CCI 2026 Lecture Series: Get In the Know with the Sea Turtle Protection Zone

Learn about the Sea Turtle Protection Zone and how you can help prevent further sea turtle injuries!
Join us this winter at the annual CCI Lecture Series!
We are excited to welcome you to these in-person events at Blowing Rocks Preserve inside the Hawley Education Center’s Classroom.

If registration is full, be sure to click the “Get Tickets” button to sign-up on our waitlist!

All lectures are FREE of charge and fill up quickly.
Advance registration is required and space is limited.
Light refreshments provided.
Recommended for adults and youth ages 13 and up.
*All attendees under 18 years old MUST be accompanied by an adult.

January 28 | 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Title: Get In the Know with the Sea Turtle Protection Zone
Description:

Sea turtle unintended boat strikes have tripled in Florida since 1980, and nearly half of the interactions occur in south Florida, from Palm Beach to Miami-Dade counties. Learn about the Sea Turtle Protection Zone (STPZ), a voluntary zone created by Loggerhead Marinelife Center and Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research to help reduce human-related threats to sea turtles. This lecture will highlight major threats faced by sea turtles – particularly boating interactions – and explain how the STPZ uses public outreach, communication strategies, and voluntary slow-speed recommendations to promote safer boating practices. Join us to learn how you can help, and to gain a sneak peak of future steps aimed at evaluating program effectiveness and further reducing sea turtle injuries.

Speaker: Meghan Boone
Loggerhead Marinelife Center

Conservation Threat Reduction Coordinator

Registration closes at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 27.

Please contact us with any questions, concerns, or requests.
Phone: 561-744-6668
Email: [email protected]
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Be sure to check out the full series to register for more lecture topics scheduled for 2/11, 2/25, 3/11, and 3/25. All lectures take place 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.