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BUXTON, N.C.
Driving restrictions have been lifted on most Outer Banks beaches because only two endangered sea turtle nests remain and they are in front of villages where driving isn't allowed at any time.
National Park Service biologist Michelle Baker said Tuesday that one nest was slowly hatching rare green turtles and the other hadn't started hatching. Nests hatch more slowly in colder weather.
The remaining nests are at the villages of Frisco and Hatteras in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Baker said a record 112 turtle nests had hatched on the beaches this season.
Under an out-of-court settlement between environmentalists and the National Park Service, some beaches along Cape Hatteras National Seashore were temporarily closed to beach drivers and pedestrians to protect the nests.
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Still there?
Hopefully the storm on Wednesday washed them all away.
Well
My qualifications to say what I said are: 26 yrs in the fisheries industry and now work for NC Fisheries. Everything I stated IS the truth and confirmed by others in fisheries as well as eye witnesses! In fact they are ONLY endangered in the US because Congress says so! There are more and more sea turtles of many species. We see more, there are more crab pots destroyed every yr by them in areas that have NEVER seen turtles! 26 ys ago we saw a turtle once in a while, now when we go to see or in the sound it's a fluke if we don't see at least one, most days we see 3-6! The most in one dat was 63! Endangered? ha Ask the left coast about the endanged stellar sealions!!!
No clue
Green turtles are endangered. Take a moment and read some scientific journals and research the subject before you make a bold statement. Just because you have "worked" or spoken with "biologists" does not make you an expert on turtle conservation. One of the main reasons for their endangered status is the taking of adults and eggs for human consumption. Overall population numbers have dramatically decreased in the last few decades. Just because something can still be caught does not mean that their numbers are stable.
Greens are rare?????
I have worked with or run across biologists all my life! Most are over educated morons! Green turtles are NOT rare. In fact most if not all countries in the Carribean harvest them! At least one Central American country raises them for market. They market half and release half. The problem is these bios say something and the general public believes thier nonsense!!!!!