Sea Turtle, Inc. is a nonprofit sea turtle rescue and rehabilitation center in South Padre Island, Texas. It is a popular regional ecotourism center, seeing about a quarter million visitors per year. Its mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and release sick and injured sea turtles; to educate the public about sea turtles and marine conservation; and to help conserve all sea turtle species, particularly those native to the Gulf of Mexico. Sea Turtle, Inc. was founded by Ila Fox Loetscher, known locally as the "Turtle Lady." After the death of her husband David in 1955, Loetscher moved to the Rio Grande Valley where her parents had retired. In 1966, she accompanied Dearl Adams on a trip to Rancho Nuevo, Tamaulipas, the main nesting beach of the Kemp's ridley, to collect sea turtle eggs and relocate them to Texas. Adams gifted her three Kemp's ridley hatchlings, which inspired her to dedicate the rest of her life to protecting sea turtles. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Loetscher took in injured sea turtles and gave presentations about them in her backyard before finally creating Sea Turtle, Inc. in 1977. More information...
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