Little Sea Beauties Helplessly Die

Sandy's surge disturbed baby sea turtle boom

By Becky Oskin

Published November 08, 2012

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  July 31, 2009: A baby loggerhead turtle makes its way to the ocean from the nest in Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

I read an article on the Loggerhead sea turtles being laid a few months before Sandy and then hatched right before Sandy started. Some eggs were laid late and either were washed out to sea, the sand was washed away and they were eaten by land predator, or they were hatched an then drown by sea water. The teams were able to save many turtles but about fifty nests were just left behind by the hurricane. I think this article is important because the entire Loggerhead turtle population might go extinct. But another hurricane might come again and destroy another population. Then another hurricane comes and another and another. Then one day the turtles are gone and your great great grand children ask your great grand children what a turtle is. "That is impossible!" you say. But I say that that is very possible. We need to change all of this by helping save the turtles! Click HERE to read more!