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WORLD TURTLE DAY
World Turtle Day is Tuesday, May 23, and a great time to “shellebrate” at the NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher. Visitors with tickets can join the Shellabration by visiting five turtle stops in the Aquarium.
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Find the Turtle Spot & Take a Shelfie.
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Post on your social media pages with hashtag #ShellabrateTurtles.
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Show your Shelfie to our team outside the Gift Shop to claim a prize.
Shelfie spots include:
- Buzzard Bay—the diamondback terrapin
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle Conservation— Pip and Scout, hatchlings
- Cape Fear Shoals—Shelldon, the green sea turtle
- Pond—sliders and cooters
- Eastern box turtle habitat
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ABOUT THESE TURTLES
Engaging the community in the story of these turtles is at the core of the Aquarium’s mission.
- Diamondback terrapin populations declined considerably in many parts of their geographic range and are listed as “Vulnerable” to extinction on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
- Loggerhead sea turtles are losing nesting habitat because of coastal development, predation of nests and human disturbances.
- Green sea turtle threats include bycatch in fishing gear, climate change, direct harvest of turtles and eggs, disease, loss and degradation of nesting and foraging habitat, ocean pollution/marine debris and vessel strikes.
- Yellowbelly sliders and eastern river cooters are of “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List.
- The eastern box turtle, the official turtle of North Carolina, is a vulnerable species. Habitat destruction has led to their decline in their former range.
Find out what you can do to protect turtles at World Turtle Day.
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