Gulf Sea Turtle Eggs to Be Moved to Cleaner Waters

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Gulf Sea Turtle Eggs to Be Moved to Cleaner Waters
June 30, 2010
Environmental News Service

To protect the eggs of endangered sea turtles from the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. and Florida wildlife experts are planning to relocate them in an unprecedented operation.

The plan is to move developing eggs from some 780 nests away from where they were originally laid on Florida Panhandle and Alabama beaches to a location on the Atlantic coast of Florida far from the oily waters.

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