HuffingtonPost.com: 70,000 Turtle Eggs To Be Moved From Oily Beaches In Massive Relocation Effort
A baby loggerhead turtle, known as a hatchling turtle because it has just hatched from an egg.
Turtles of this size enter the sea along the east coast of Florida and swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
Photo credit: wildlifeextra.com
Turtles of this size enter the sea along the east coast of Florida and swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
Photo credit: wildlifeextra.com
An effort to save thousands of sea turtle hatchlings from dying in the oily Gulf of Mexico will begin in the coming weeks in a desperate attempt to keep an entire generation of threatened species from vanishing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will coordinate the plan, which calls for collecting about 70,000 turtle eggs in up to 800 nests buried in the sand across Florida Panhandle and Alabama beaches. Nests include endangered Kemp's ridleys
and threatened loggerheads. Both are found off the New Jersey coast.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 7/1/2010 10:00 AM 
Categories: Sea Life
Tags: loggerheads sea turtle gulf of mexico kemp's ridleys u.s. fish and wildlife bp oil spill
Categories: Sea Life
Tags: loggerheads sea turtle gulf of mexico kemp's ridleys u.s. fish and wildlife bp oil spill
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