The travel restrictions imposed globally to manage the coronavirus pandemic have a visible positive repercussion in marine life, with a reduction in pollution and a revival of sea populations, various media report.
Sea turtles are one of the species that have benefitted from this, project officer for MEDASSET Eleana Touloupaki told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA). “Nature has quieted down,” the staff member of the international organization for Mediterranean marine protection notes. “In Greece, we recently saw the return of dolphins in the Thermaikos Gulf (Thessaloniki), the canal waters in Venice clearing up and fish returning,” she notes. “In India, a great number of threatened sea turtles are laying eggs for hours at a time, even during the day,” she notes.
In Greece, Touloupaki points out, the turtles lay eggs from May to August. “Now is a time that turtles are mating, so any reduction in human interventions and threats obviously helps, as it does for any wild species,” she adds.
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