In 2011 the following organizations and institutions were awarded a non-competitive $1,000 mini-grant in support of their ongoing Marine Turtle Permit-related Nesting Beach Surveys, Stranding and Salvage, Rehabilitation or Educational Activities:

  • Friends of the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, Inc.
  • Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol, Inc.
  • Turtle Time, Inc.
  • Fort Pierce Inlet State Park
  • Supporters of St. Vincent, NWR, Inc
  • Loggerhead Marinelife Center
  • Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program
  • Florida Oceanographic Society
  • Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, Inc.
  • Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve

Funding in this category is intended to support established activities of Florida’s Marine Turtle Permit Holders. Recipients were selected by the Committee from a listed of organizations and institutions that registered for the 2011 – 2012 funding cycle. The selected groups have not received funding from the Sea Turtle Grants Program in the previous grant cycle or for any other purpose in the current cycle.