Volunteers Scour Beaches to Save Cold-Stunned Endangered Sea Turtles
3 A cold-stunned Kemp’s ridley sea turtle lays in the sand at Great Hallow beach in Cape Cod on December 3, 2020. Photo: Lauren Owens Lambert / AFP (Getty Images) For decades, volunteers in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts have spent November and December trekking up and down the area’s beaches during high tide. They have a very important mission: finding stranded sea turtles that are so cold they can barely move, leaving them essentially defenseless on the shore. The sea turtles that experi...
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