89 leatherback turtle eggs moved to safe area on beach

[snoop1130]

89 leatherback turtle eggs moved to safe area on beach

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

A mother leatherback sea turtle laid 93 eggs at a beach in Khao Lak, Phang Nga yesterday. The 89 eggs have been carefully moved to a safe area on the beach whilst four eggs had broken.

 

The enormous leatherback sea turtle laid its eggs on a beach at the Kuek Kak Beach in Khao Lak yesterday morning.

 

Four eggs have been found broken when officials from the Department of Marine and Costal Resource went to inspect. 89 eggs have now been moved to a safe area 30 metres from the area where the mother turtle laid eggs on the beach and out of the way of any possible foot traffic.

 

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[worgeordie]

I just hope no one goes and digs them up for their breakfast,

The Leatherback is the biggest of the sea turtles with sizes

up to 2.5 mtrs,and they travel all the tropical and temperate

seas of the World,so i just hope some of them survive util

they become adults.

regards worgeordie

[Mises]

The beach in front of Trisara at Phuket has had 4 nests from 2 turtles this year, they were fenced off and after hatching the weaklings were removed so as to gain strength before releasing to the sea. The very weakest died hatching.

Hopefully some of them will survive to maturity.

[Cricky]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Four eggs have been found broken when officials from the Department of Marine and Costal Resource went to inspect. 89 eggs

Should read:

 

Four eggs were broken by officials from the Department of Marine and Coastal Resource when they went to inspect 89 eggs