Good News for Baby Sea Turtles!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Late June brought several pieces of great environmental news: Colorado's Roan Plateau was spared from oil and gas drilling, and the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the EPA's position that the Clean Air Act requires the federal government to impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from industry and vehicles.

But neither of those victories registered with the youngest environmentalists in the Brune household like the news that Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño had signed a law protecting nearly 2,000 acres of the island's Northeast Ecological Corridor from development.

The leatherback sea turtles get to keep their nesting grounds.

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[handmade34]

1. turtle art

loggerhead, not leatherback, but cool nonetheless... love turtles, must protect them...

early morning nest

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thank goodness. Every effort made is so important. This is great news. n/t

[carla]

3. Every effort made is so important. This is great news.

So true , Judilynn. I want to point out something I have learned about sea turtle nesting. Each surviving female from a given nest has the same birthing strategy. They ALL want to lay in the hole they emerged from, so to speak. As a result, here in the tropics, loggerheads, leatherbacks, Ridleys are all endangering their own species success by laying their clutch on their sisters clutch. Sometimes the turtle eggs are layered 3 or 4 clutches deep. The bottom clutch never gets a chance. It is a sad irony of our best efforts that we still suffer from insufficient understanding to craft successful strategies from the get go. Alas, that is what it is to be human, to err. But at least we try and for that I remain proud of my kind. Peace. Good luck, turtles.