{"id":1959,"date":"2009-09-30T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2009\/09\/sea-turtle-hatchlings-follow-the-brightest-light\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:47:37","slug":"sea-turtle-hatchlings-follow-the-brightest-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/sea-turtle-hatchlings-follow-the-brightest-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea turtle Hatchlings Follow the Brightest Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This bittersweet story of a romantic marriage proposal with unintended consequences for marine life, is a good illustration of why Paso Pacifico Turtle Rangers have <a href=\"http:\/\/pasopacifico.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/portable-light-project-designs-to.html\">custom-designed red lights<\/a> on their solar FLAP bags from the Portable Light Project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A romantic marriage proposal on a Hilton Head Island beach Tuesday night had an unintended consequence &#8212; the death of about 60 federally protected loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings.<\/p>\n<p>A man had placed about 150 luminarias &#8212; bags with a lit candle inside &#8212; in the shape of a heart on the beach near Palmetto Dunes, according to volunteers with the Sea Turtle Project who monitor the nests.<\/p>\n<p>After the proposal, the visiting couple apparently retired to their rental home without extinguishing the lights. An estimated 60 baby sea turtles emerged from a nearby nest a short time later and became disoriented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Story via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceansentry.org\/lang-en\/menu-news\/menu-turtles\/2286-beachfront-proposal-leads-death-turtle-hatchlings.html\">Ocean Sentry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bittersweet story of a romantic marriage proposal with unintended consequences for marine life, is a good illustration of why Paso Pacifico Turtle Rangers have custom-designed red lights on their solar FLAP bags from the Portable Light Project. A romantic marriage proposal on a Hilton Head Island beach Tuesday night had an unintended consequence &#8212; [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology-innovation","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6405,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}