{"id":309694,"date":"2026-06-16T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309694\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:10:16","slug":"volunteers-take-part-in-beach-clean-up-at-crandon-park-for-world-sea-turtle-day-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309694\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers take part in beach clean-up at Crandon Park for World Sea Turtle Day &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Volunteers took part in an annual beach clean-up for World Sea Turtle Day.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade County Parks held its third annual clean-up at Crandon Park near Key Biscayne on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Participants picked up trash left on the sand, including plastic and empty food bags. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my first beach cleanup, but I hope to do more, and I\u2019ve been a big supporter of the sea turtle conservation movement, and so it seems really important to tie those together and try to preserve and protect the beaches for sea turtles and for everyone,\u201d said volunteer Roxanne Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>They also learned more about nesting season, including incubating eggs and when they hatch.<\/p>\n<p>The event highlights the importance of protecting turtles during the peak of nesting season, which runs from April through October.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Volunteers took part in an annual beach clean-up for World Sea Turtle Day. Miami-Dade County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-309694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}