Image: Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation

Description: Dr. Brian Stacy, NOAA veterinarian, prepares to clean an oiled Kemp's Ridley turtle. Veterinarians and scientists from NOAA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, and other partners working under the Unified Command are capturing heavily-oiled young turtles 20 to 40 miles offshore as part of ongoing animal rescue and rehabilitation efforts. Credit: NOAA and Georgia Department of Natural Resources. As the nation’s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state, and local organizations. To learn more about NOAA's role in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, visit: <a href="http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/deepwaterhorizon/" rel="nofollow">Office of Response and Restoration Deepwater Horizon Incident page</a>
Title: Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation
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Author: NOAA's National Ocean Service
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