In the “impressive” rescue, more than 1,200 sea turtles saved from the cold sea of ​​Florida were saved.

When the Floridans enjoyed the rare snowfall last week, the florida wildlife experts were busy rescue to clean up the offshore of the pancreal.

One of the largest cold -water rescue in the state in the past decade, biologists have saved 1,200 ST turtles from the frigid cold St. Joseph Bay Area for five days. Images from local rescuers of the local, state, and the federal rescuers indicate that the kayak and truck beds are filled with ground turtles that cannot control their body temperature.

According to the Florida fish and the Wild Biological Protection Committee’s spokesman, Jonathan Vent, most sea turtles were alive and moved to the Gulf World Laboratory of Panama City Beach. Some turtles needed medical care, but other turtles were released to the wild because they needed quick warm -ups in one of the salted water tanks in the laboratory. Approximately 100 turtles have died.

According to Samantha Snow, a biologist in the US geological survey, about one -third of the rescued turtles have returned to the Gulf Water area. Almost all of the animals that rescued offshore Bay County and Gulf County were green sea turtles, the most extinct turtle on earth, except for eight logger head turtles and one kemp.

“It was a very tough job, but many people have gathered to achieve this,” said Snow.

Corie Lloyd, a turtle of a wild biological engine in Florida, said he had a turtle ferries on a kayak on Saturday and was pulled out of a shallow muddy along the island of St. Joseph. Lloyd paddles almost 12 turtles into a deeper water area, where the boat returned the animals to the coast for rehabilitation. He picked up the wind, floated and surprised and surprised at the coast with a surprise turtle, and repeated the process.

“It was impressive to find and recover the cold turtles that grew around the Sent Joseph Bay,” wrote the Fish Wildlife Research Institute, the arm of a wildlife institution in the state. “It was a large -scale partner team,” he said, including the US Geological Survey, the US Fish Wildlife Bureau, and the local conservation groups.

If the water temperature falls below Hana 50 degrees, cold -blooded turtles are usually stressed. The recent warm weather of the bread handle has already risen the water temperature exceeding the harmful level of sea turtles. In other words, many may be released off the coast again.

This is not the first time this area has seen a large -scale rescue. In 2018, biologists rescued more than 1,000 turtles. In 2010, at least 1,800 turtles were saved from frigid water.

In the east coast of Florida, offshore, Nasso County, and Volcian County County County Events have been harmed about 120 green turtles so far. According to wildlife organizations, it is much less than a few hundred people rescued from the pancreas, but the states are most stressed by the state in the northeast of Florida.

Last week, the rescuer pulled more than 40 green sea turtles from St. Ogastin offshore. Biologists drove many of them in the Tampa Bay Area, where they warm up at the rehabilitation center of the sea turtle in the Florida Aquarium in Apollo Beach. According to Debborah Luke, Vice President of Aquarium, general rehabilitation, such as X -rays, blood work, drugs, and other foods and treatments, costs $ 15,000 per turtle.

“This serious cold event, combined with many facilities on the West Coast, which recovers Hurricane Helen and Milton’s aftermath, to attract more sea turtles over the next few weeks and save more sea turtles. It means that you have to increase your efforts. ” According to the facility, the general public who wants to support sea turtles protection of the aquarium can help by donating.

Gulf World Marine Institute has returned to Mexico Bay on Wednesday of Port Styst Joe and will release more than 150 cold turtles. The veterinarian says that animals are currently medically cleared after healing from cold -induced COM sleep.

“It’s really overwhelming, but we couldn’t do what we did without all volunteers and communities,” said Snow.

The people are encouraged to warn the rescuers of the wildlife in the state when they look at injury, illness, or death turtles. To create a report, call the 888-404-3922 Wildlife Commission Alert Hotline.