Share the Beach- Alabama's Sea Turtle Conservation Program

09/28/2026

Thank you to the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo for inviting Share the Beach to join you for your Harvest Moon Festival!

Our team loved talking with visitors about how the choices we make about lighting at night can impact wildlife, including sea turtles navigating our beaches after dark. Seeing all those red flashlights moving around the zoo after sunset was pretty amazing!

Thank you for helping us keep the message going: CLEAN, DARK and FLAT beaches help sea turtles find their way home. 🐢❤️🌌

09/28/2026

If you (or your company) are looking for a fun service project that will help our Share the Beach- Alabama's Sea Turtle Conservation Program, please consider signing up for a shift at the Annual National Shrimp Festival! That wonderful event needs volunteers for their concession tents and all tips earned are given back to programs such as Share the Beach. This is how it works: If you volunteer for a shift with four friends you will be able to donate 50% of the tips from your shift to Share the Beach and if you have eight friends volunteering together, 100% of your collected tips will be donated to us!

All volunteers receive a Shrimp Festival t-shirt and two drink tickets to enjoy after your shift, so please click the following link to help support our work: https://www.myshrimpfest.com/volunteer

09/24/2026

Please help us keep the beachfront CLEAN, DARK and FLAT for hatchlings making their way to the Gulf.

Our Share the Beach teams will continue to monitor and assess the nests laid along the Alabama coast through October. Our volunteers have monitored these nests from the time they were laid and have documented significant washover and inundation from Tropical Storms Arthur and Bertha. While neither storm made direct landfall in Alabama, it doesn’t take much of a disturbance in the Gulf to send tides surging over our beaches which can negatively affect sea turtle nests.

Our teams have documented significant losses from inundation, but there is encouraging news, too, more than 1,800 hatchlings have been documented making their journey to the Gulf so far. 🐢🩵

With 96 nests this season, we had hoped to see a higher number of hatchlings. A mama sea turtle typically lays 3–4 nests during a nesting season, with roughly 110 eggs per nest. This natural strategy helps ensure that even when storms, predators and other challenges take a toll, some of her offspring have the opportunity to survive and make that incredible journey to the Gulf. Nature has a remarkable way of balancing the odds.

We look forward to sharing our final end of season update and hopefully, a little more good news along the way!

If you see a sea turtle on the beach, please call 866-SEA-TURTLE (866-732-8878) so our response team can assist.

Thank you for all your help giving these hatchlings their best chance.

09/21/2026

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to see us this past Saturday at Bellingrath Gardens’ NatureNauts STEM Day! We enjoyed meeting you, talking sea turtles, and sharing ways we can all help protect endangered wildlife along our Alabama Coast!

One of the most important things we can do is keep our beaches dark at night. Sea turtles rely on natural light cues to find their way to the Gulf, and sea turtle-friendly lighting can help support those natural behaviors while still providing plenty of light for people. When choosing your lighting, look for red, orange, or amber light with a wavelength of 560 nanometers or greater.

We also had so much fun crafting with you! Your weaving turtles looked amazing, and the thumbprint sea turtle poster is a true work of heART. 🐢❤️ Thank you for spending part of your Saturday learning, creating, and celebrating NatureNauts STEM Day with us. We’re looking forward to seeing you there again next year!

08/31/2026

Curious about the sea turtles that nest on Alabama’s coast?
Check out Sea Turtle Talks at The Lodge at Gulf State Park to learn about these incredible marine reptiles and the challenges they face. Discover answers to questions like:

🐢How many species of sea turtles can be found in the Gulf?
🐢How many hatchlings can emerge from a single nest?
🐢What can you do to help protect nesting sea turtles?

Bring all your questions and stay for the Q&A session.

08/27/2026

One of the best parts of Jack Johnson’s tour is seeing him give back to the communities he visits—and the Alabama Coast was lucky enough to experience that last night. 💚🌊

Jack invited several local nonprofit organizations from across coastal Alabama to be part of his concert. Each organization had a space on the Village Green to share their mission, connect with concertgoers, and raise awareness about the work they’re doing in our community. Even more generously, Jack matched donations to each organization, up to $2,500, helping support the important work happening right here along our coast.

Alabama Coastal Foundation and Share the Beach were honored to be invited to share our volunteer efforts to protect nesting and hatching sea turtles. 🐢💚

It was so nice meeting so many of you, hearing your questions, and talking with you about simple ways you can help protect sea turtles while enjoying our beaches.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello, learn more, and make a donation. Your support helped us reach our fundraising goal, and we’re truly grateful!

And a special thank-you to Jack Johnson for shining a light on local nonprofit organizations and helping us continue our mission to protect Alabama’s sea turtles. 🌊🐢💚

08/21/2026

**TO REPORT A NESTING, INJURED OR DISTRESSED SEA TURTLE OR HATCHLING, PLEASE CALL
866-Sea-Turtle (866-732-8878)**

08/19/2026

Remember to Leave Only Footprints! 👣🌊

Please fill in your holes before you leave the beach! 🏖️

Unfilled holes aren’t just dangerous for sea turtles—they can also be hazards for first responders, Coastal Resources workers, our volunteers, and anyone else enjoying the beach.

💚 Do your part to help keep our beaches safe for everyone and protect the wildlife that calls them home.

Leave Only Footprints. Fill Your Holes. Keep Our Beaches Safe. 🐢🌊

**TO REPORT A NESTING, INJURED OR DISTRESSED SEA TURTLE OR HATCHLING, PLEASE CALL
866-Sea-Turtle (866-732-8878)**

08/18/2026

Two sea turtles injured by fishing gear are back in the Gulf after months of treatment and rehabilitation. https://www.wkrg.com/baldwin-county/two-injured-sea-turtles-in-gulf-shores-get-second-chance-at-life/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WKRG

08/18/2026