Sentences with phrase «sea turtle eggs»

The turtle hatchery team collects, records and preserves sea turtle eggs in the hatchery which is located on the resort.

Guests Give Back Each year from June to November CasaMagna Marriott commissions biologists to comb the beaches and gather sea turtle eggs that are to be transported to the Marriott nursery for incubation.

In recent years there's been several reports of a fungus, Fusarium solani, that has infected sea turtle eggs.

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

Smaller - scale translocations have been successful, Wibbels points out; Each year from 1978 until 1988, about 2000 Kemp's ridley sea turtle eggs were moved from the species» sole nesting beach in Rancho Nuevo, Mexico, to Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christi, Texas, in a bid to start a second nesting beach.

Sea turtle eggs exposed after hurricane - driven storm surge washed away sand and dunes where they were incubating.

There are several factors which have led to this: the loss or degradation of feeding and nesting habitats due to construction and other human factors, long line fishing catches, drowning in fishing nets, turtles consuming ocean pollution or becoming entangled in it and trade in green sea turtle eggs, meat, leather and shells.

It is a sea turtle conservation initiated by the resort aiming to protect sea turtle eggs, increase hatching rates, increase their chance of surviving, and enabling them to strengthen before releasing them into the sea.

Sea turtles are under enormous threat as they're caught as bycatch in fisheries, and lose their habitats to overfishing, pollution, and other human encroachment — including poaching and rampant sea turtle egg collection.

Besides the threat from man and the «black market» for sea turtles and sea turtle eggs, the major challenge for new turtle hatchlings is the short but dangerous journey they must take from sandy beach to the sea, trying to avoid predatory birds and iguanas.