THANK YOU!
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who donated and joined us at our first fundraiser event on Saturday! We raised a lot of money thanks to your generosity, but we're still a long way from our goal.
Please continue to spread the word to other friends of the environment so that they too can join us to keep our beautiful coastal environment clean and safe! THANK YOU!
Every year in the early summer, thousands of diamondback terrapins make their way out of coastal marshes and onto busy highways. Hundreds of these helpless creatures are killed by speeding traffic.
The annual terrapin nesting season begins in late May and extends through early August. During this time, adult female terrapins look for a place to make their nests and lay their eggs. Unfortunately, because of coastal development and changes in the local environment, good nesting areas are becoming harder to find.
Unfortunately, because female terrapins in undisturbed habitats live long lives and reproduce annually, they are the worst part of the population to be killed, as their absence contributes to both a sharp decline in terrapin population and a less robust repopulation of a rapidly dwindling coastal species.
North Wildwood Terrapin Rescue's goal is to help protect these beautiful animals by installing safety fencing along the North Wildwood Blvd causeway (Route 147).
For information about how you can help, please email us at info@terrapinrescue.org or visit our sponsors at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor at www.wetlandsinstitute.org.
THANK YOU!