AMITW in the News
AMITW Sea Turtles on Animal Outtakes! – 2025 Learn about how lights impact hatchling sea turtles on AMI especially after the 2024 hurricanes.
AMITW Shorebirds on Animal Outtakes! – 2024 Learn from our volunteer, Kathy, about the shorebirds that live on AMI and what we do to protect them (our segments starts at 13:43)
AMITW on Animal Outtakes! – 2024 Follow-up on turtle nesting season
AMITW on Animal Outtakes! – 2023 Watch as AMITW is highlighted on our local nature program during the peak of turtle season in 2023
Release of Eliza Ann: Watch as Sea Turtle Conservancy applies a satellite tag to a nesting sea turtle on Anna Maria Island and she is released. Eliza Ann was tracked as part of the Tour de Turtles in 2017.
Odin is an adult male loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) released from Mote Marine Laboratory’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital on August 1, 2023. He was tagged by AMITW’s Executive Director, Kristen Mazzarella to contribute to a study of the movement patterns of adult male sea turtles in order to determine areas important to the survival of adult males. His tag transmitted until March 2025. Satellite tagging was conducted under the authorization of Florida Fish and Wildlife Marine Turtle Permit#155.
