Baby turtles hatch under cover of darkness at PMRF

Tara Del Fierro-Duran / Special to The Garden Island

A team of University of Hawai‘i specialists on contract with the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands and a Kaua‘i Marine Mammal Response field coordinator from the Protected Species Program of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Aquatic Resources excavate a hatched green sea turtle nest late last month. It was the first hatching of the year at PMRF.

BARKING SANDS — Approximately 55 green sea turtles hatched from a nest on the shore fronting the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility in one evening late last month.

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