Fifty-seven sea turtle hatchlings left a guarded nest on Phu Quy
Islanders found tracks on Hon Tranh beach on August 28. Fisheries officers fenced the nest, and on October 12 every egg had hatched and the turtles were carried to the water.
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All 57 eggs in a nest on Phu Quy island hatched, and the turtles were carried to the sea on the morning of October 12, 2026. VnExpress reported that residents noticed tracks on Hon Tranh beach on August 28, after a sea turtle had already returned to the water. The Phu Quy fisheries surveillance station followed the tracks, found the nest, and put a mesh fence around it.
Tran Ngoc Dung, deputy head of the station, said the team could not name the species because the mother was gone. Sea turtles in Vietnam are treated as protected wildlife even so. After 45 days, every egg had hatched and the hatchlings were moving in the sand. Officers and neighbors moved them in foam boxes to the water's edge and released them one by one.
Dung said the fence, the watch, and the release depend on people who live on the island calling in tracks when they see them. VnExpress did not report a later count of how many of the 57 were still near shore. The result in the story is that the whole clutch hatched and left the beach.
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VnExpress reported on October 12, 2026, that 57 baby sea turtles were released on Phu Quy island in Vietnam. On August 28, people saw tracks where a turtle had come ashore at Hon Tranh beach to lay eggs. The mother was already gone, so officers could not say which kind of sea turtle she was. They put a mesh fence around the nest and watched it. After 45 days, every egg had hatched and the babies were moving in the sand. Fisheries staff and neighbors carried them in foam boxes to the edge of the sea and let them go, one after another. All 57 made it out of the nest.
- Why fence a turtle nest instead of digging the eggs up right away?
- Why could the team not name the species if they had the eggs and the babies?
- What is one thing people on a nesting beach can do to leave the sand dark and quiet?
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