For the last few decades, people all over San Diego have seen little brown heads popping in and out of the waters all along the coast in the San Diego Bay, Mission Beach, La Jolla Cove and Coronado.
Recently, The Coronado News sat down with Jeffrey Seminoff, leader of the Marine Turtle Ecology & Assessment Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to discuss this growing population of sea turtles all around San Diego.
These beautiful creatures have chosen the West Coast as home for a number of reasons, one being the diversity San Diego’s oceans hold in terms of food and wildlife.
However, with a growing population comes risks to the lives of these sea turtles.
NOAA and a few local conservation groups such as SoCal Sea Turtles Inc. have come together to raise awareness that San Diego has its own population of sea turtles, and how to preserve the species.
Here is an in-depth article on Coronado’s sea turtles.
