Sea turtles went ashore, and were recorded in a glider with night vision devices

Two sea turtles went up last night to lay eggs on the beach, but interfered with each other and the laying failed.

The next day, the old post, which has been known in the country for years, came up, and the mission was successfully completed, when it was documented hovering with a night-vision device used for enforcement on the beach.

Ziv Reinstein

07/07/2022

Thursday, 07 July 2022, 15:19 Updated: 15:41

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Sea pliers return to the sea after a spawning attempt at Dor Beach, July 2022 (Photo: Alon Penn, RTG)

Two world-endangered brown and green sea turtles came up on Tuesday night (Tuesday) together to lay the next generation.

The result: they returned to the sea without dumping.

The next day an old and familiar green turtle farm came up to lay again.

This time the mission was completed successfully.

Alon Penn, inspector of the marine unit at the Nature and Parks Authority, says: "While we were inspecting at night, inspecting fishing at night, the nature reserve, where it is forbidden to fish, flew the glider and scanned the beach and suddenly I saw the green farm from yesterday rising and laying its eggs in the reserve."

The inspector who scanned the beach discovered that at that time a green tortoise had come up to lay its eggs on the beach and a brown tortoise had also come up that disturbed it.

The two placements went ashore and did not cast.

"Usually we are afraid that we are disturbing them, that we are on the beach, in the reserves where it is forbidden to stay at night. That night, what happened was that the squirrels disturbed each other and returned to the sea without laying," he adds.

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Signs of crawling back to the farm of Hava, this morning (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Alon Penn)

Photographed with a skimmer with night vision devices.

Farm returns to the sea after laying (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Alon Penn)

"Waiting for the young hawks to reach the sea"

"The day after that, to make sure they had the quiet and to direct the movement between the tombstones, that each one would go to its place, we waited up quietly in the dark that they would come to lay. A glider with a thermal camera and this nest is now protected, we are waiting for the young hatchlings to reach the sea. "

Dr. Yaniv Levy, director of the Sea Turtle Rescue Center at the Nature and Parks Authority, said:

Every three or four years she goes up to re-lay and I get to meet her again and again.

We put a satellite transmitter on it and this heroine managed to scratch it from her after only 20 days.

It was the first transmitter I put.

This is an old turtle that we know, which goes up to lay every few years in exactly the same place.

A very precise, cute girl, weighs about 85 pounds.

"On Tuesday she went up to cast on the beach and it turns out she fought with another brown tortoise on the casting site, and in the end they did not cast. Yesterday she went up again and casted, and when casting she was photographed with a skimmer with night vision of the Nature and Parks Authority."

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