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Environmentalists: habitat protection needed for loggerhead sea turtles listen

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Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for not providing Loggerhead sea turtle habitat protection. Loggerhead turtles are currently listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in the state of Florida and they continue to face many threats.

The habitat for this species is disappearing and Amanda Keledjian, a marine scientist at [Oceana](http://oceana.org/en/explore/marine-wildlife/loggerhead-se...

Resident saves turtles for 30 years

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Bruno Falkenstein, a longtime volunteer, was awarded the citizen of the year by the City of St. Pete Beach for his commitment of looking after and nurturing sea turtles.