This will be the cutest video you will see today. My grandparents found baby sea turtles on their doorstep this morning so they released them one by one!
please turn on your volume omg
Baby sea turtles find the ocean at night by looking for the light of the moon reflecting off of it, so they can be drawn to lights nearby by mistake. If you live near a turtle beach, turn off your porch lights.
Also, taking them to the beach they came from is absolutely the right thing to do, but with one addition: it’s best not to put them too close to the water. You have to stay nearby and watch for gulls and crabs, but female sea turtles remember their beach best if they walk down at least 10 feet of sand before hitting the water, so it’s best to place them all a distance away and let ‘em walk. They can do it, they have the energy, but they might stop and rest a couple of times on the way there. Just be prepared to wave your arms and yell if a seagull comes nearby.
Last month, a paper published in the journal Science Advances announced
a conservation success: Imperiled sea turtle populations were, in
general, rising.
For example, from 1973 to 2012, the number of green
turtles nesting on a Hawaiian beach grew from 200 to 2,000. Hawaiian
green turtles are now listed as a subpopulation of “least concern” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
But the recent report was not all good news. The populations of
leatherback turtles in the North Atlantic continue to drop, and some
species, like flatback turtles, remain “data deficient,” meaning that
researchers have very little information with which to estimate the size
of the population…
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