Volunteers help Alabama’s Gulf coast sea turtles
Volunteers arrive before daylight. Sometimes they go all day without seeing any sign of a turtle or its nest. Chandra Wright said it can make volunteers wonder sometimes why they do it. But once they see baby turtles hatch and crawl to the water, they wonder no more.
“It’s completely worth it when those babies hatch out,” Wright said. “It’s amazing. It’s one of those events that doesn’t ever get old.”
A little more than 15 years ago, after watching the hatchlings perish from the nest near his home in Gulf Shores, Reynolds spoke to Kelly Reetz, the naturalist at Gulf State Park.
“We decided we needed our own organization,” Reynolds said. “So I went to U.S. Fish and Wildlife and applied for a ‘take’ permit and got one.”
Click the link to read more and watch the video about the work this group is doing…
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