Animals possibly being knocked off course by storm events on the east coast of the US and in the Caribbean
Small, wrinkled and stranded in chilly waters – young turtles have been turning up on the beaches of the UK and Ireland in higher numbers than usual this winter, data has revealed.
According to reports made to the Marine Conservation Society and Marine Environmental Monitoring, 13 juvenile turtles have been stranded since November, including 12 loggerheads and one Kemp’s ridley turtle.
