#turtle friendly lighting

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LED Turtle Lamps Can Help Preserve Sea Turtles, Here’s How

The sea turtles are declining in numbers and it’s happening fast. According to the World Wildlife Conservancy sea turtles can go extinct by 2050 if they’re not preserved. Wondering wha…

LED Turtle Lamps Can Help Preserve Sea Turtles, Here’s How

The threat to sea turtles is of a great magnitude, and that’s exactly why we need to act to preserve turtle habitats now and help protect these endangered species.

With turtle friendly LED lamps you can do so in a cost-efficient way, as LEDs consume 90 percent less electricity.

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Here’s Why You Should Install LED Turtle Lamps

Here’s Why You Should Install LED Turtle Lamps

The threat to sea turtles is real, the reason why we need to act now to help protect these endangered species.

And with turtle friendly

LED lamps

you can do so in a cost-efficient way, as LEDs consume 90 percent less electricity than regular lights.

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LED Turtle Lamps Can Help Preserve Sea Turtles, Here’s How

The sea turtles are declining in numbers and it’s happening fast. According to the World Wildlife Conservancy sea turtles can go extinct by 2050 if they’re not preserved. Wondering wha…

LED Turtle Lamps Can Help Preserve Sea Turtles, Here’s How

The threat to sea turtles is of a great magnitude, and that’s exactly why we need to act to preserve turtle habitats now and help protect these endangered species.

With turtle friendly LED lamps you can do so in a cost-efficient way, as LEDs consume 90 percent less electricity.

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DoE makes emergency baby turtle intervention

DoE makes emergency baby turtle intervention

Paul Chin, the DoE’s ‘turtle whisperer’, rescues sleeping baby turtles

(CNS): The Department of Environment’s Turtle Team went into rescue mode Monday, as they worked hard to move turtle eggs in nests that were in the firing line from Tropical Storm (later Hurricane) Delta. Organised by the team leader, Lorri Lamb, the DoE staff and volunteers excavated 18 nests under threat of being washed away…

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Turtles still at risk despite record year

Turtles still at risk despite record year

Baby green turtle emerges from a nest and heads to the sea

(CNS): This year’s turtle nesting season may be a record-breaking year for the number of nests but experts at the Department of Environment are reminding residents that there are still a number of preventable threats for turtles, particularly artificial lighting, which lures the babies as they hatch away from the relative safety of the…

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NCC votes for increased turtle protection

NCC votes for increased turtle protection

A nesting turtle was disoriented and fell into a swimming pool (Photo by Janice Blumenthal)

(CNS): A green turtle narrowly escaped poachers in West Bay recently after a member of the public called 911 to report an attempt to steal her away as she came onto the beach to nest. Conservation officers responded quickly and got her back in the sea, and then watched the beach through the night.…

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New street lights to help save baby turtles

New street lights to help save baby turtles

CUC staff install turtle-friendly lights

(CNS): Forty special street lights have been purchased by the Department of Environment using cash from the Environmental Protection Fund to help prevent baby turtles hatching on local beaches from going the wrong way. The DoE said the new lights will be installed along roads adjacent to important turtle nesting beaches and where the most disorientation…

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Turtle hotline saves disoriented loggerhead babies

Turtle hotline saves disoriented loggerhead babies

Disoriented baby turtles (Photo courtesy DoE)

(CNS): An intern at the Department of Environment was able to rescue a number of baby loggerhead turtles in the early hours of Tuesday morning thanks to a report from the public that the tiny turtles were heading the wrong way. At this time of year baby turtles are emerging from their nests all along the Cayman Islands’ beaches but artificial lighting…

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