Turtle Eggs avoid Gulf Oil Danger
The first of several layers of Loggerhead sea turtle eggs in a Styrofoam cooler at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, on August 9, 2010. The biologists at Eglin have followed strict U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department protocols to excavate more than 400 eggs. The 96th Civil Engineer Squadron is working with other governmental agencies, whose goal is the transportation of more than 700 sea turtle egg nests from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic coast. When they get there, eggs are monitored at a climate-controlled facility, where they will be allowed to hatch in the cooler. Wildlife technicians will then release them into the ocean. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lance Cheung)
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