Community Corner
Friends Of The Bay Kicks Off Terrapin Protection Project
The terrapins can be found along the northern shore of Oyster Bay, especially at Centre Island Beach.
Press release from the Friends of Oyster Bay:
June 17 2020
Friends of the Bay, in cooperation with the Town of Oyster Bay, is beginning a diamondback terrapin protection project, and we're looking for volunteers to join our Team Terrapin to help make it work.
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The terrapins can be found along the northern shore of Oyster Bay, especially at Centre Island Beach, and with a large population at the end of Mill Neck Creek near Beaver Dam. They also nest in those areas, and Friends of the Bay and the town would like to protect the nests at Centre Island from predators – human and otherwise – and inadvertent damage from beachgoers.
The first step is to get volunteers – who will be trained – to walk along the shoreline looking for signs of nesting terrapins, whose nesting season has begun. Once we map the nesting locations, starting next year the town plans to erect protective fencing and we hope to have interpretive signs installed as well.
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Friends of the Bay is holding a beach cleanup and turtle nesting site search at Centre Island Beach on Sunday, June 28, from 9 AM to 11 AM. To register as a Team Terrapin volunteer and/or to participate in the beach cleanup, email us at admin@friendsofthebay.org. Registration is required by June 21.
This press release was produced by the Friends of Oyster Bay. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
