Unfortunately they mistook the asphalt for the sea and for many of them, there was nothing they could do. Here's what happened on the Specchiarica beach after the sea turtles hatched.
Unfortunately they mistook the asphalt for the sea and for many of them, there was nothing they could do. Here's what happened on the Specchiarica beach after the sea turtles hatched.
Many of them have died and now the hope is to save the unborn turtles on the beach of Specchiarica, in San Pietro in Bevagna in Taranto. Probably according to the WWF of Policoro they were deceived by the light of the street lamps, they practically went to the opposite side crossing the coast road and thus ending up being overwhelmed by cars.
Disoriented, the 35 sea turtles found a horrible end, only some of them managed to escape and were promptly released into the sea. But the number is very low, it should be just six.
The hatching took place on the night of Saturday 25 August, while this morning shortly after four o'clock new specimens were born and fortunately for them there was a different fate. The volunteers who had identified the nest, directed them towards the sea, lighting the path with torches.
The path with the torches:
In the meantime, another good news: do you remember Nazzareno, the male specimen of sea turtle Caretta caretta rescued by the Sea Turtle Recovery Center of Brancaleone? He had plastic in his stomach and a torn-bruised wound on his carapace, in these days, after cure, she was released.
Read also:
- Massacre of turtles at the villa of Capaci, brutally killed by vandals
- Let's reopen the recovery center of Linosa sea turtles (PETITION)
Dominella Trunfio
Photos and videos: Giovanni B Coccioli
