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Vendaval -> Saving sea turtles in the gulf by moving their nests (7/15/2010 11:09:20 PM)

A remarkable story of the efforts to save the sea turtles affected by the oil spill in the gulf.

"Saving sea turtles one egg at a time"
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
July 15, 2010

Reporting from Gulf Shores, Ala. — Is it possible to save a generation without breaking any eggs?

That's the tricky question the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, FedEx and hundreds of volunteers are beginning to answer this week as they dig up more than 70,000 turtle eggs on the gulf shore and transport them to the oil-free beaches of Cape Canaveral, Fla., where they'll be hatched in a warehouse and released into the ocean.

It's one of the most ambitious wildlife nest relocations ever attempted, biologists said, a risky experiment to prevent widespread mortality of five threatened and endangered turtle species.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-turtles-20100715,0,2244379.story



DomKen -> RE: Saving sea turtles in the gulf by moving their nests (7/16/2010 12:30:47 AM)

Gulf Shores was one of my favorite places. I wonder if it will ever be the same.

I do hope the turtles come back.



LadyEllen -> RE: Saving sea turtles in the gulf by moving their nests (7/16/2010 3:01:25 AM)

I saw this on ABC "World News" the other night - the lady turtles return to the beach where they hatched to lay their eggs, so this batch will return to the Florida coast rather than where they might have in the Gulf.

Even so this is a desperate act to try to save this generation, and presumably the same will happen for some years to the same end, with no certainty that it will work - that the babies will survive in the waters to which theyll now make their way on hatching. If nothing is done though, the babies will surely die in the oily waters.

If it does work it means that not only are the turtles saved, but in principle it should be easy enough to transfer eggs laid on Florida beaches back to the Gulf if/when its clean enough and over time, apparently it takes 20 years for a girl turtle to become a lady turtle, restore the species to its natural habitat.

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truckinslave -> RE: Saving sea turtles in the gulf by moving their nests (7/16/2010 6:58:50 AM)

I once got to watch a loggerhead lay eggs, cover up her clutch, and return to the sea. There was something definately primeval about it. I'm now on a list to be informed of hatchings, and hope to witness that as well.

I really hope this works, and that, as LE has already discussed, that the reverse can be done in the future.



DomYngBlk -> RE: Saving sea turtles in the gulf by moving their nests (7/16/2010 11:30:36 AM)

Thank you for posting this. I hope it all goes well and we don't endanger more..



Lucylastic -> RE: Saving sea turtles in the gulf by moving their nests (7/16/2010 12:30:38 PM)

 this maybe the only time I agree with Truck, I am also on a list, I hope this goes well and that it doesnt screw with their  laying impulses or  screw with their "radar" I understand their eggs are quite leathery? but yes I wonder about how it will affect them hugely over the next few years.
SO much devastation to get thru and hopefully without making their situation worse.
At least something is being done




Vendaval -> RE: Saving sea turtles in the gulf by moving their nests (7/16/2010 1:14:49 PM)

You all are welcome. It is the best chance for the turtles during this nesting season.



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