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The problem is getting bigger and bigger by the minute, we see turtles that are entangled in ghost fishing nets. Sometimes it’s even just turtle carcasses. We see ingestion of plastic fragments. Then there’s also the pollutants – chemicals. – Matthias Egger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Oftentimes you have sea turtle nests on beaches that are being run over by tires of this heavy equipment crushing the eggs. – Brian Lapointe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
After hours of being stuck on the patio the turtle made her way back to the ocean after being carried in a harness away from the home and over the dunes. – Sea Turtle Preservation Society	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He pulled me back up to land, and I pulled the turtle up there and that’s when we realized how big he really was and how old he really was. – Justin Broomhall	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Any time you see a Kemp's ridley sea turtle laying eggs on a beach, it is a win for conservationists because there were only a few hundred left on this planet in the mid-1980s. – Pamela Plotkin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Edisto Beach State Park sea turtle patrol had a very rare find during a routine nest inventory, three to five days after a sea turtle nest shows signs of a major emergence, we dig down to determine the success of the nest by counting the hatched eggs, unhatched eggs and on occasions also find live hatchlings. While performing an inventory this past Wednesday, patrollers and volunteers found three alive loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings still in the chamber, but one hatchling, in particular, stood out because it had two heads! – The Facebook post	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now, we have President Joe Biden in the White House and Nancy Pelosi at 80 million years old as speaker, and we've got a Senate that we don't control anymore, with, you know, Mr. Big Turtle in charge up there just, just losing gracefully, losing gracefully. – Marjorie Taylor	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We only have possibly a few thousand left. We're probably the only piece of land in the UK where turtle dove numbers are actually rising. – Isabella Tree	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We had 120,000 pairs of turtle doves( in the UK) when I was growing up. – Isabella Tree	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I just remember shielding Kevin Grant while my sister screamed my name, after the turtle hit the glass, she was literally in shock and kept driving. I was the one covered in blood and telling her to calm down and call 911. – Kevin Grant	Found on CNN 3 years ago
A Native without land is like a turtle without a shell'. – Joseph Edward Shaw	added by Loneseawolf 3 years ago
The illegal trade of turtles is having a global impact on many turtle species and our ecosystems. – Eric Sutton	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We know that there's manatees in the area, there's turtle nesting areas in the area, there's some bird activity in the area. All of these are concerns for us. – Chris Graff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They may possibly carry contaminants, bacteria or viruses, or they may affect the turtle at a cellular or subcellular level. – Pennie Lindeque	Found on CNN 5 years ago
As we moved around the island this past July, every single step we had to be careful, because there was evidence of turtle nesting, but, thankfully, most of the eggs would have hatched and the hatchlings gone, by the time the hurricane hit. – Chip Fletcher	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is advised that you use caution when dealing with them. The bite from a turtle this large can easily remove a finger, or even your hand. – The Oklahoma Game Warden	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Releasing the turtle back into the ocean is a very good feeling, you feel like you've done something tangible and I guess everybody would love to do that... So I guess it's unique work. – Fikiri Kiponda	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The turtle takes a long time to reach sexual maturity, taking up to 25 to 30 years, as their vulnerability was discovered late, we lost a whole generation due to the pet trade and now their population has become very small. – Rikki Gumbs	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I see a guy in a race car souped-up. I see a tower that he built. I see him holding his gun; he’s a deer hunter. I see him with a magician and I see him as a Ninja Turtle ... nothing violent. – James Herring	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
More than two new species a week and 2,500 in the past 20 years speaks to how incredibly important Mekong River is to global biodiversity, while the threats to the region are many, these discoveries give us hope that species from the tiger to the turtle will survive. – Stuart Chapman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We just found a package that contains GBL, which is a date rape drug, as you can see, the package includes sponges to make us think it's turtle wax car wash equipment. – Frank Russo	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It's almost like the turtle is wearing a life preserver. – Seattle Aquarium spokesman Tim Kuniholm	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Families should avoid having direct contact with the animals, should not let the turtle roam freely, should avoid placing animals in sinks, bathtubs or other areas where family members may have contact with them, and should dispose of droppings carefully. – Elizabeth Barnett	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We breed them and when they are big enough, we tag and release them into the ocean, any fisherman who catches a turtle in their nets, we pay them to bring them here instead of eating them. – Papalii Faafetai	Found on CNN 8 years ago

The problem is getting bigger and bigger by the minute, we see turtles that are entangled in ghost fishing nets. Sometimes it’s even just turtle carcasses. We see ingestion of plastic fragments. Then there’s also the pollutants – chemicals.

– Matthias Egger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Oftentimes you have sea turtle nests on beaches that are being run over by tires of this heavy equipment crushing the eggs.

– Brian Lapointe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After hours of being stuck on the patio the turtle made her way back to the ocean after being carried in a harness away from the home and over the dunes.

– Sea Turtle Preservation Society

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He pulled me back up to land, and I pulled the turtle up there and that’s when we realized how big he really was and how old he really was.

– Justin Broomhall

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Any time you see a Kemp's ridley sea turtle laying eggs on a beach, it is a win for conservationists because there were only a few hundred left on this planet in the mid-1980s.

– Pamela Plotkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Edisto Beach State Park sea turtle patrol had a very rare find during a routine nest inventory, three to five days after a sea turtle nest shows signs of a major emergence, we dig down to determine the success of the nest by counting the hatched eggs, unhatched eggs and on occasions also find live hatchlings. While performing an inventory this past Wednesday, patrollers and volunteers found three alive loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings still in the chamber, but one hatchling, in particular, stood out because it had two heads!

– The Facebook post

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now, we have President Joe Biden in the White House and Nancy Pelosi at 80 million years old as speaker, and we've got a Senate that we don't control anymore, with, you know, Mr. Big Turtle in charge up there just, just losing gracefully, losing gracefully.

– Marjorie Taylor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We only have possibly a few thousand left. We're probably the only piece of land in the UK where turtle dove numbers are actually rising.

– Isabella Tree

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We had 120,000 pairs of turtle doves( in the UK) when I was growing up.

– Isabella Tree

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I just remember shielding Kevin Grant while my sister screamed my name, after the turtle hit the glass, she was literally in shock and kept driving. I was the one covered in blood and telling her to calm down and call 911.

– Kevin Grant

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A Native without land is like a turtle without a shell'.

– Joseph Edward Shaw

added by Loneseawolf
3 years ago

The illegal trade of turtles is having a global impact on many turtle species and our ecosystems.

– Eric Sutton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We know that there's manatees in the area, there's turtle nesting areas in the area, there's some bird activity in the area. All of these are concerns for us.

– Chris Graff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They may possibly carry contaminants, bacteria or viruses, or they may affect the turtle at a cellular or subcellular level.

– Pennie Lindeque

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As we moved around the island this past July, every single step we had to be careful, because there was evidence of turtle nesting, but, thankfully, most of the eggs would have hatched and the hatchlings gone, by the time the hurricane hit.

– Chip Fletcher

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is advised that you use caution when dealing with them. The bite from a turtle this large can easily remove a finger, or even your hand.

– The Oklahoma Game Warden

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Releasing the turtle back into the ocean is a very good feeling, you feel like you've done something tangible and I guess everybody would love to do that... So I guess it's unique work.

– Fikiri Kiponda

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The turtle takes a long time to reach sexual maturity, taking up to 25 to 30 years, as their vulnerability was discovered late, we lost a whole generation due to the pet trade and now their population has become very small.

– Rikki Gumbs

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I see a guy in a race car souped-up. I see a tower that he built. I see him holding his gun; he’s a deer hunter. I see him with a magician and I see him as a Ninja Turtle ... nothing violent.

– James Herring

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

More than two new species a week and 2,500 in the past 20 years speaks to how incredibly important Mekong River is to global biodiversity, while the threats to the region are many, these discoveries give us hope that species from the tiger to the turtle will survive.

– Stuart Chapman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We just found a package that contains GBL, which is a date rape drug, as you can see, the package includes sponges to make us think it's turtle wax car wash equipment.

– Frank Russo

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's almost like the turtle is wearing a life preserver.

– Seattle Aquarium spokesman Tim Kuniholm

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Families should avoid having direct contact with the animals, should not let the turtle roam freely, should avoid placing animals in sinks, bathtubs or other areas where family members may have contact with them, and should dispose of droppings carefully.

– Elizabeth Barnett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We breed them and when they are big enough, we tag and release them into the ocean, any fisherman who catches a turtle in their nets, we pay them to bring them here instead of eating them.

– Papalii Faafetai

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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