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Teams from Disney Conservation and the Sea Turtle Conservancy released two sea turtles July 29, 2023, as part of the 16th annual Tour de Turtles event at Disney\u2019s Vero Beach Resort. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As a leader of Disney Conservation\u2019s sea turtle program, Tempe native and University of Arizona alumna Rachel Smith plays an important role in the magic that takes place near Disney\u2019s Vero Beach Resort in Florida. For over a decade, Smith has been studying and protecting sea turtles that nest on Florida’s beaches, helping Disney ensure a positive future for these at-risk animals.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in our 20th anniversary of Disney\u2019s sea turtle conservation program this year, which is really an exciting milestone for us and I am fortunate to have been there for the majority of that time and progressed to the point where now I lead that amazing program full of absolutely wonderful cast members from all sorts of different departments across Disney that come together to help us advance the conservation of sea turtles in Florida,\u201d says Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year, Smith\u2019s dedication and conservation efforts toward these amazing animals have led her to witness an historic nesting season bringing new hope to sea turtle conservation. So far this season, Smith and her team have discovered a record-breaking number of over 2,800 nests in Florida, which is more than 1,000 nests ever recorded at Disney\u2019s Vero Beach Resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are in the midst of what I am calling an historic and unprecedented sea turtle nesting season here in Florida and it\u2019s not just on the five miles of beach that my team at Disney monitors everyday, it\u2019s been a trend that\u2019s being observed across the entire state of Florida,\u201d says Smith. \u201cOur previous record for our stretch of beach was in the sixteen-hundreds, which is still a lot of nests for a five-mile stretch of beach in a season. We look to be at about 2,840 [nests] right now as we round up the end of the nesting season, so it\u2019s almost double of what we recorded in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This amazing discovery required relentless dedication from Smith and her team, who go out at first light to the field site each morning during nesting season, which runs from March through October, in order to conduct population monitoring by cataloging all of the nesting and hatching activity that occurred the night before from the three species of sea turtles that nest there\u2014all of which are threatened or endangered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve watched the morale just increase on this team just bearing witness to the nesting season that we saw this year and feeling like all of the blood, sweat and tears . . . seem worth it because you see that it is translating into real successes for these animals that we love so much,\u201d shares Smith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Smith and the sea turtle conservationist community don\u2019t fully understand all the contributing factors behind the record-breaking number of nests found this season, Smith points to the fact that sea turtle conservation efforts take many years to come into fruition and that the hatchlings seen today may be the second-generation of sea turtles who were originally protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act fifty years ago\u2014an exciting concept that offers hope for the future of sea turtles and the important conservation efforts that take place around Disney\u2019s Vero Beach Resort.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Disney\u2019s Vero Beach Resort] is one of the most dense areas for sea turtle nesting in the state and the whole south eastern portion of Florida is very critically important for loggerheads, green turtles, as well as for leatherback sea turtles, which is a critically endangered species, so it\u2019s a very exciting and special place to be,\u201d says Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Arizona residents and those who don\u2019t live by the coast, protecting sea turtles is no less significant than it is near sea turtle nesting beaches in Florida, as streams and canal systems lead directly into the oceans. Eliminating plastic in our everyday lives is a major way to combat the waste that ends up in the ocean and ultimately in the bellies of sea turtles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s sort of an out-of-sight, out-of-mind problem for many of us, but the everyday choices that we make . . . are going to have an absolutely monumental impact for our sea turtles across the world\u2019s oceans,\u201d says Smith. \u201cThe other thing that I would point to is eating sustainable seafood. That\u2019s something that we can all do regardless of where we live and there\u2019s an amazing program called the Seafood Watch Program out of the Monterey Bay Aquarium that is a great resource; they have regional guides and all sorts of really helpful information in there to help you make the right decisions in purchasing seafood, whether you\u2019re at the grocery store or a restaurant.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about the amazing work that Arizona\u2019s own sea turtle conservation champion is doing at Disney and what you can do to get involved, visit impact.disney.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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