Back to the wild: Kids set free orphaned turtles
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Orphans set free
It's a circle of life that even a child could understand. Seventeen orphaned turtles were let back into the wild by kindergartners in New Jersey.
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Raised from eggs
Some of these young turtles had been raised from eggs retrieved from the smashed bodies of mothers killed on roads. Others were rescued from roads or storm drains.
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How the mothers die
How do these turtles end up on the road? In egg-laying season turtles come out of marshes into dry land to lay eggs. They become vulnerable to their natural predators as well as speeding vehicles.
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Young females
The Wetlands Institute harvests eggs from females killed on the road and incubates them at 30 degrees Celsius, a temperature that will ensure they develop as females.
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Happy together
These schoolkids get to know the turtles as they grow. They give them names, draw posters of them, and even raise money to help conserve them. Before releasing them back into the wild again.
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Hundreds of road kills
In the southern New Jersey marshlands area alone 550 adult females end up as road kills every year, says Wetlands Institute, the organisation behind the rescue program.
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Community connection
As part of the program, thousands of turtles have been returned to the wild over the past 25 years. The organisation sees it as a great community connection.