(CMR) Four sea turtle nests narrowly escaped destruction by an excavator which was operating on a section of Seven Mile Beach to clear vegetation from an empty lot.
When they arrived on the scene Tuesday morning, Department of Environment [DoE] volunteers and staff stopped the excavator from driving over a nest. DoE personnel determined that three additional nests were in the area which had already been cleared, but over a two-hour period they were able to locate all three nests and confirm that the eggs were undamaged, having been narrowly missed by the heavy excavator tracks.
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