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It pooped plastic: rescued sea turtles return to ocean after detox

January 8, 2023591 Views

Marine biologists in Argentina have returned two green turtles to the ocean who were rescued after they became entangled in fishing nets, with one of the pair of endangered creatures excreting plastic ingested from the sea. The turtles spent a month in animal rehab at the Fundación Mundo Marino where scientists checked their swimming, helped with their diet and gave them a chance to detox from plastics. They were returned to the sea on the beaches of San Clemente. Personnel of Mundo Marino foundation release to the ocean two green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas), who were rescued after they became entangled in fishing nets in San Clemente del Tuyu, Buenos Aires, Argentina January 5, 2023. Fundacion Mundo Marino/Handout via REUTERS. "The turtles arrived, they were put in pools and th...

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Cuban sea turtles can’t escape climate change, even on these far-flung beaches

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July 13, 2022891 Views

On Cuba's far-flung Guanahacabibes peninsula, park guard Roberto Varela watches as a green sea turtle lumbers ashore and a ritual as old as the dinosaurs unfolds. "To see them lay their eggs and to know their nests will be protected, you get the sense you are making a difference," said Varela, who helps oversee turtle research in a national park that spans much of the peninsula. So far, efforts by Varela and fellow researchers at the park and University of Havana have been a success. Turtle nesting here, once threatened by poaching, has stabilized and increased in some cases, published studies show, even as it has fallen off elsewhere in the tropics. A green sea turtle returns to the sea after laying eggs on the beach in Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba, June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Alex...

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Deep water port could threaten Congo’s sea turtles

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April 4, 20221042 Views

Each year Christian Ndombe and other park rangers scour the beaches of Democratic Republic of Congo's vanishing coastline for turtle nests, bringing the eggs to a hatching centre where they are incubated for eight weeks. Rising sea levels and erosion have consumed almost a quarter of the turtle's nesting grounds, the rangers estimate. Now a new concern is emerging in the form of a port, which the government says will bring jobs and lower the cost of imports, but that rangers worry will further endanger them. Turtles released after eight weeks from nests of a hatching centre, are seen on the endangered coastline in Muanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 5, 2022. REUTERS/Justin Makangar "The problem we have at the moment is that to really protect them, we need to protect...