Successful Nesting Season For American Crocodile Hatchlings At Turkey Point Power Plant

CBS Miami

September 18, 2023

MIAMI - American crocodile hatching season has come to an end at Florida Power and Light's Turkey Point Clean Energy Center south of Miami.

FPL biologists say it was a successful season at the site resulting in nearly five hundred crocodile hatchlings from twenty-five nests.

FPL officials say the Turkey Point Clean Energy Center's cooling canal system provides an optimal habitat for the crocs and its management program is a significant contributor to the growing population of the species.

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