Employees at Israel's National Sea Turtle Rescue Center are treating endangered
green sea turtles affected by a devastating oil spill that has coated Israel's
coast with thick black tar.
The spill, which Israel's Nature and Parks Authority has called one of the
country's worst ecological disasters on record, has coated most of Israel's 120
miles (195 kilometers) of Mediterranean coastline with sticky tar. It has
caused extensive damage to wildlife, including sea turtles.
“They came to us full of tar. All their trachea from inside and outside was
full of tar," he said.
Workers have been removing the toxic substance from the reptiles' airways and
found a creative way to flush it out of their digestive tracks.
“We continue to feed them substances like mayonnaise, which practically clean
the system and break down the tar," Ivgy said. The recovery process is expected
to take a week or two, after which the turtles are expected to be released back
into the wild.
Thousands of volunteers and clean-up crews have mobilized to remove tar from
Israel's beaches, a task that is expected to take months.
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