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Friends Ocean Week Celebrates The Waters Around Our Islands

PRESS RELEASE | October 9, 2024 – Friends of Virgin Islands National Park's annual Ocean Week encourages everyone to get ...
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USVI Hawksbills Take Spotlight at International Symposium

By Nyomi Gumbs | Virgin Islands Source | The Virgin Islands garnered major attention at the recent 42nd annual International ...
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Friends September Newsletter

Do you know what clues a mother sea turtle leaves behind when coming ashore to lay her eggs? Our Sea ...
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Discovery of leatherbacks nesting on St. John is first in four years

By ANDREA MILAM | Virgin Islands Daily News St. John Correspondent The Friends of Virgin Islands National Park Sea Turtle ...
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Sea Turtle Program 2022 Season Report Available

The Virgin Islands National Park Sea Turtle Monitoring and Protection Program aims to protect sea turtle nests, facilitate research projects, ...
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STJ Sea Turtle Program Seeks Volunteers to Monitor Beaches

By Amy H. Roberts / Virgin Islands The Source / June 22, 2022 Thursday, June 16, was World Turtle Day, ...
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Turtle Alert! Second Leatherback Nest Discovered

May 16, 2022 by Hillary Bonner / News of St John Good Morning, Good Morning!  A few weeks ago you may remember ...
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Rare Leatherback Sea Turtle Nest Found on St. John

By Amy H. Roberts / Virgin Islands Source When Leeanne and David DiGiacomo went for an early morning swim this ...
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2021 Sea Turtle Season Report

 Since 2015 the Virgin Islands National Park (VINP) Sea Turtle Program, funded by the Friends of VINP (FVINP), has been ...
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Friend’s Monitoring Program records over 3,000 turtle hatchlings

By ANDREA MILAM St. John Correspondent / Daily News A wave of volunteer momentum has carried the Friends of Virgin ...
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