Thousands of baby turtles released into Gulf of Mexico
In a bizarre incident to environmentalists, federal biologists have released thousands of an endangered species of baby sea turtles into the western Gulf of Mexico. They have stated that by the time these tiny swimmers will reach the sea, BP...
IN A bizarre incident to some environmentalists, federal biologists have released thousands of an endangered species of baby sea turtles into the western Gulf of Mexico. They have stated that by the time these tiny swimmers will reach the sea, BP would have cleared up the mess.
It is just an expectation but many fear that what of the oil mess is not cleaned up! There is always an uncertainty about the sea and recently a tropical storm had halted the cleaning work near the well. These reasons are enough to fear that the life of the small endangered turtles have been, perhaps, compromised.
But the people who are favouring the plan said that keeping them beyond a limit of time would have hampered the animal’s life cycle and would be far worse than the dangers of oil that lie 400 miles away.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service went ahead with the annual release of Kemp's ridley turtle hatchlings off Padre Island National Seashore as Texas has not been so much impacted by the oil spill. It has been a practice for years that scientists have incubated and hatched the turtles to give the endangered creatures a boost.
Several hundreds of these young turtle hatchlings which are only days-old have been freed on Texas beaches since the June 8 decision. Another large group of these turtles is expected to be released early next week.
This decision of releasing turtles to the gulf has stirred controversy among some scientists, environmentalists and turtle lovers.
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