By Associated Press, August 28
SAN SALVADOR — Wildlife authorities say a strong earthquake in the
Pacific Ocean late Sunday destroyed more than 45,000 endangered sea turtle eggs
on the coast of El Salvador.
The director of the turtle conservation program for the El Salvador
Zoological Foundation says the 7.4-magnitude undersea quake sent at least three
waves at least 30 feet high up the beach and destroyed thousands of nests and
just-hatched turtles. It also washed up on about 150 people collecting eggs in
order to protect them in special pens hundreds of feet up the beach. The waves
injured three.
Program director Emilio Leon said that in the last year and a half the
foundation has successfully hatched and released 700,000 turtles from four
species at risk of extinction.
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