The Marine Gulf Specimen Lab is trying to raise $50k to build a new Sea Turtle Hospital to continue protecting North Florida’s endangered sea turtles.
- The lab’s current hospital is very small, which makes caring for Sea Turtles quite hard.
- This hospital will be the only one in North Florida that can treat Fibropapilloma.
- Watch the video below to learn more about this much-needed expansion.
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The sea turtle hospital at the Marine Gulf Specimen Lab sits at only 12 by 15 ft, not including equipment. One of their largest sea turtles to be treated here took up most of the space at 200 pounds.
To help with this, the Marine Gulf Specimen Lab has officially begun fundraising to build a new hospital so they can care for more sea turtles…