The turtle population on the island of Zakynthos saw a significant increase this year, with a record number of nests and eggs of the caretta caretta species, greekcitytimes.com reports.
According to the sea turtle protection society of Greece Archelon and the National Sea Park of Zakynthos there were an estimated 1,454 nests found on the six beaches located in Laganas Gulf.
Especially in 2018 the beach of Sekanies, the most popular for caretta-caretta, hosted 783 nests and 93,960 eggs.
It is calculated that 1 of 1,000 hatchlings manages to survive so in this case approximately 94 baby turtles will get off the beach and go into the water.
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