Kristy_07
Very Well-Known Member
I chanced upon an unsubstantiated quandary last week which I'm sure you'll dig. At a beach in Ninh Thuan, a national park no less, local farmers have been hired by the Department of Environment to pick up endangered turtle hatchlings (saving them from nasties and what not) and toddle with them down to the water where they set them free, presumably with a tear rolling down their cheeks.
WHICH AS WE ALL KNOW IS A GODDAMN GIGANTIC FAIL. Hatchlings have elevated hormones for that brief period during which they scuttle to the water which lets them tune into the geo-magnetics of the site, so years later then can return there to lay INSTEAD OF swimming around in the ocean completely lost and dying.
The next season is Feb/Mar, so a friend and I think at the very least a stern letter writing campaign or fiery picket line is in order. Or, could arrange to present a case in person (I totally don't trust letter writing here) mixed in with some surveying, since stragglers are typically still laying when the first hatchlings emerge. Vietnamese tailors will make anything, so I think a turtle mascot costume with a suitably sad and lost expression will get us some attention, as well.
If they have the money to hire farmers to move the turtles, they have the money to give them torches and get them to look but not touch, as well. I'm excited! We'll be turning them from turtle toddlers to wilderness guardians. We could get t-shirts made!
(Also, there'll be a whole heck lot of turtles. And it will be dark. Finders keepers!)
WHICH AS WE ALL KNOW IS A GODDAMN GIGANTIC FAIL. Hatchlings have elevated hormones for that brief period during which they scuttle to the water which lets them tune into the geo-magnetics of the site, so years later then can return there to lay INSTEAD OF swimming around in the ocean completely lost and dying.
The next season is Feb/Mar, so a friend and I think at the very least a stern letter writing campaign or fiery picket line is in order. Or, could arrange to present a case in person (I totally don't trust letter writing here) mixed in with some surveying, since stragglers are typically still laying when the first hatchlings emerge. Vietnamese tailors will make anything, so I think a turtle mascot costume with a suitably sad and lost expression will get us some attention, as well.
If they have the money to hire farmers to move the turtles, they have the money to give them torches and get them to look but not touch, as well. I'm excited! We'll be turning them from turtle toddlers to wilderness guardians. We could get t-shirts made!
(Also, there'll be a whole heck lot of turtles. And it will be dark. Finders keepers!)