07/01/10
They're returning home,
paddling hundreds of miles
across the Gulf to give birth here,
on the very same beaches
where they were born.
Tonight, it's a race against time
and the encroaching oil.
In what may be the largest
man-made migration in history,
US Fish and Wildlife
hopes to relocate every egg
in every turtle nest they find
in the northern Gulf Coast,
up to 70,000 eggs.
Next month, they will be
trucked 500 miles
to Florida's Atlantic coast.
We believe that any hatchlings
that would crawl into
the Gulf Coast at this point
would not survive.
But usurping
Mother Nature's role is also risky.
These eggs are so fragile that
just turning them upside down
could kill a hatchling.
カメたちは何百マイルも泳いで―
自分が生まれた海岸に産卵しに戻る。
海岸に原油が迫る。
今は時間との戦いだ。
人工的にカメの卵を移動させる。
政府による史上最大の引っ越し作戦。
対象の海岸には
最大7万個の卵が埋まっていて―
500 マイル先の大西洋岸に
移送される。
今のメキシコ湾では
ふ化しても生きられません。
だが自然への介入は危険だ。
卵をひっくり返すだけで
死ぬ可能性がある。
