Roughly a week after thousands of comatose turtles were rescued from the freezing waters off the Texas coast, volunteers have begun the process of returning the rehabilitated creatures back to the sea.
Sea Turtle Inc. in South Padre Island, which saved the lives of more than 5,000 cold-stunned sea turtles, shared a video of their efforts on Facebook Sunday. After an exhaustive 24-hour effort that went through the night and has just ended this morning, Sea Turtle Inc. was successfully able to release more than 2,200 previously cold-stunned turtles into the open ocean of the Gulf of Mexico, the nonprofit wrote alongside the clip. We still have lots of work to do, but we are rejuvenated with passion at having seen our first released turtles swim away.
Bats, birds among wildlife pummeled during Southern freeze
John Flesher And Jamie Stengle
Associated Press
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Diana Foss, Texas Parks and Wildlife Urban Wildlife Biologist attempts to find any surviving Mexican Free-tailed bats in a pile of dead bats at Waugh Drive in Buffalo Bayou Park, where it was impacted by the winter storm Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in Houston. Foss, said that the winter bat colony is about 100,000. She said they were able to find about 20 bats that have fallen from the bridge that were still alive and they are attempting to save. (Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP) (KPRC)
(AP) – As many people in the southern U.S. hosted neighbors who had no heat or water during the vicious February storm and deep freeze, Kate Rugroden provided a refuge for shell-shocked bats.
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The record cold and snow in Texas didn t just catch the state s human inhabitants off-guard, it threatened its endangered sea turtle population.
Volunteers rescued thousands of the endangered amphibians across the Gulf region last week that were effectively paralyzed by the freezing temperatures, preventing them from eating or keeping their heads above water.
Wildlife officials in Corpus Christi recently returned hundreds of sea turtles to the ocean and used slides to return them to the wild.
The gentle creatures were placed one at a time on a wet slide, zoomed back into the water and then swam away.
The Texas Sealife Center says it released more than 200 sea turtles on Monday and Tuesday alone.