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Padre Island National Seashore
Texas Area Contacts to Report Nesting and Stranded Sea Turtles

Phone 1-866-TURTLE-5 or the Texas area contact nearest you:

  Location

Response Contact Information

Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston Island, Galveston Bay

 

NOAA Fisheries (Galveston Lab)

Lyndsey Howell/Ben Higgins

Tel. (490) 766-3670

E-mail: e-mail us

http://galveston.ssp.nmfs.gov/

Matagorda Peninsula, Sergeant Beach

 

San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge

Jennifer Sanchez or Shane Kasson

Tel. (979) 964-3639

Email: jennifer_sanchez@fws.gov

http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/texasmidcoast/sanbernard.htm

Matagorda Island

 

Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

Chad Stinson

Tel. (361) 286-3559

E-mail: chad_stinson@fws.gov

http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/aransas.html

San Jose Island, Mustang Island, Corpus Christi Bay

 

UT – Marine Science Institute / Animal Rehabilitation Keep

Tony Amos

Tel. (361) 442-7638

E-mail: afamos@utmsi.zo.utexas.edu

http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/outreach/animal-rehabilitation-keep.html

North Padre Island, Upper Laguna Madre

 

Padre Island National Seashore

Texas Coordinator for the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network

Donna Shaver, PhD

Tel. (361) 949-8173 ext. 226

E-mail: e-mail us

http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/outreach/animal-rehabilitation-keep.html

 

South Padre Island, Boca Chica, Lower Laguna Madre

(Nesting Turtles Only)

Sea Turtle, Inc.

Jeff George

Tel: (956) 761-4511

E-Mail: seaturtleinc@yahoo.com           

http://www.seaturtleinc.org

                      

South Padre Island, Boca Chica, Lower Laguna Madre

(Stranded Turtles Only)

UT-Pan American, Coastal Studies Lab

 Don Hockaday

Tel. (956) 761-2644

E-mail: hockaday@panam.edu

http://www.panam.edu/csl/



 

Nesting Kemp's ridley sea turtle  

Did You Know?
Kemp's ridley sea turtles are both the smallest and the most endangered sea turtles in the world and that they are found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico?
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Last Updated: August 20, 2009 at 11:25 EST