Sea Turtle Recovery in New Jersey rescues a juvenile loggerhead stranded on Cape Cod, flying it by plane to cut transport time from 4-5 hours to one hour. Over 80% of sea turtles now have plastic in their digestive systems, a direct result of ocean pollution.
The most challenging part of today's operation, you're gonna laugh, is actually getting this plane out of the hangar. Sea Turtle Recovery is a nonprofit organization here in New Jersey. We're the first long-term care facility for sea turtles in the state. Today we're taking in some turtles from Massachusetts where they've had a mass stranding event. Be great. Have a good one, later. So this is a juvenile loggerhead sea turtle. Compassion Flight 1283 has been cleared. This turtle stranded along Cape Cod where he failed to migrate migrate to warmer waters before temperatures got too cold. Minimizing that transport time as much as possible is crucial to keeping these turtles safe and healthy. The drive would have taken somewhere between 4 and 5 hours, but this flight we can get them home in about an hour. Ah! People can help the sea turtle populations by reducing plastic use. It's estimated over 80% of sea turtles have plastics in their digestive systems right now. All that hard work we did to prepare for this flight paid off. And he is ready for water. Thank you, guys.
