Florida Today.But Florida wildlife officials urge those who come across exposed turtle eggs or stranded baby turtles to not collect them.
It's better, they say, to call those trained and permitted in how to deal with sea turtle eggs and hatchlings, or in most cases to just let nature take its course.
Federal and state laws protect sea turtles and forbid taking, possessing, disturbing, mutilating, destroying, selling and harassing all types of sea turtles, their nests and their eggs.Some researchers and turtle advocacy groups obtain special permits to handle turtle eggs and to rehabilitate stranded turtles.Beachgoers aren’t supposed to touch sea turtles, including recent hatchlings trying to reach the ocean in after storms.The five species.