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Baby Sea Turtles in Georgia Are Struggling to Find the Ocean This Season. Massive Interstate Lights Are to Blame, Experts Say

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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — During the first week of July, the popular travel center and gas station chain Buc-ee’s opened its largest location in Georgia, just off coastal Interstate 95. But it’s not the beaver-branded merchandise or the smell of barbecue that’s attracting Georgia’s sea turtles — it’s the harsh glare of towering high-mast lights. Under normal conditions, the soft glow of moonlight guides newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles …

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Sea Turtles in Georgia Have Difficulty Getting to the Ocean. Experts Blame the Lights on the Highways

During the first week of July, the popular chain of Buc-ee’s travel centers and service stations inaugurated its largest location in Georgia, right next to Interstate 95, near the coast. However, it is not the products with the image of a beaver or the aroma of barbecue that attracts Georgia’s sea turtles, but the extreme glare of the high lighting towers. In normal conditions, the dim glow of the moon guides newborn baby turtles from the beache…

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Interstate lights by Georgia’s biggest Buc-ee’s are leading baby sea turtles astray, experts say

Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings are being drawn miles inland, where they risk falling to predators or dying from exhaustion before they find the water.

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