JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — Georgia’s coast is the place for tiny turtles and decades of conservation efforts seem to be paying off.
The Georgia Sea Turtle Center says Jekyll Island has become the nesting place of choice for local loggerhead turtles.
It counted 243 nests through early October.
That’s 10 times the nest numbers from the low point in 2004, almost 20 years ago.
This year, more than 21,000 tiny turtles hatched.
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