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DECEMBER 2, 2024
BY 7 NEWS WHDH
QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - The New England Aquarium is treating more than 200 cold-stunned sea turtles that have washed onto Massachusetts shores in critical condition, an annual phenomenon that has ramped up in the past week.
Staff and volunteers from Massachusetts Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary have been walking the beaches along Cape Cod Bay in search of cold-stunned turtles and transporting the animals to the Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital in Quincy, where they are treated for life-threatening medical conditions resulting from hypothermia and the inability to feed.
So far this season, aquarium staffers have treated 257 live sea turtles: 214 critically endangered Kemp’s ridley turtles, 39 green turtles, and four loggerheads. About 100 of those turtles have been rescued in just the last two days. ...
BY 7 NEWS WHDH
QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - The New England Aquarium is treating more than 200 cold-stunned sea turtles that have washed onto Massachusetts shores in critical condition, an annual phenomenon that has ramped up in the past week.
Staff and volunteers from Massachusetts Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary have been walking the beaches along Cape Cod Bay in search of cold-stunned turtles and transporting the animals to the Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital in Quincy, where they are treated for life-threatening medical conditions resulting from hypothermia and the inability to feed.
So far this season, aquarium staffers have treated 257 live sea turtles: 214 critically endangered Kemp’s ridley turtles, 39 green turtles, and four loggerheads. About 100 of those turtles have been rescued in just the last two days. ...