“Of course we're disappointed, especially since there wasn't much missing ! ” regrets Renaud Dupuy de la Grandrive, the director of the Cap d'Agde Marine Protected Area who participated in monitoring the nest where a loggerhead turtle came to lay eggs on August 2, 2024 on Roquille beach. At the end of October, the incubation period of 65 days maximum having been exceeded, the nest was opened. It contained 70 eggs, 68 of which had begun embryonic development.
Turtles could return to lay eggs
The incubation was interrupted not by the waves, “the nest which was more than 30 meters from the sea (at rest) was not submerged” specifies Renaud Dupuy of the Grandrive, it is rather due to the drop in temperature for several days in mid-September.”
Genetic analyzes will be carried out to find out if these eggs were laid by the loggerhead turtle which had made its nest in Marseillanthe previous year and which had seen the emergence of 80 twists. ” The positive thing to remember is that these loggerhead turtles, which are mostly present in Greece, are arriving here, in new territories, and that they can potentially return, who knows, maybe next year.”
In France, the laying of loggerhead turtles, a protected species, is monitored by the National Museum of Natural History which “lets nature take its course”. In Guyana, for example, eggs are sometimes taken and placed in an incubator to follow the incubation process. .
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