The Importance of Dim Lights in Sea Turtle Conservation

Thomas Reichig is a neurobiologist turned full-time sea turtle conservationist. The light above the sea is a guide for the turtles at two crucial phases in their life. An nesting turtle has to decide for an nesting place. Then if it is finished nesting it wants to go back to the sea as quick as possible. But if it takes the wrong way it doesn't go to the sea, it goes in the direction of the land. It will die in the sun or the next day where it will just be overheated and desiccated - all that.