Hope for the Future
That doesn’t mean that humans can’t work to fix what threatens the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, though. The federal government also has a plan to help bring the turtle’s back from the brink, including protecting nesting sites and habitat as well as collecting data to cut down on bycatch. Prescott’s team of workers and volunteers old and young and the network that helps return the turtle’s to safer environs will also continue their work.
“It really gives you hope for the future, that we could [save] a species that was on the edge of extinction,” Prescott said. “So many different universities and agencies and aquariums and people have worked so hard for decades to bring this turtle back and have been successful in doing that. This is a very important successful conservation story.”
