the harvest of adult green turtles increased greatly with the European conquest of the New World. Sailors prized green turtles as food, as they could be kept live onboard until slaughter, providing a ...
Portsmouth-based patrol vessel HMS Medway transported the turtles to the Azores The crew of a Royal Navy warship have released six rare turtles back into the wild after they washed up on UK shores.
The Navy said a sailor spotted a number of juvenile green sea turtles stuck on the jetty rocks Thursday afternoon. The sailor alerted the base “Environmental Department” and they called in FWC.