{"id":61690,"date":"2021-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=61690"},"modified":"2023-05-23T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T09:57:58","slug":"two-sea-turtles-found-dead-on-ramlet-el-baida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/61690\/two-sea-turtles-found-dead-on-ramlet-el-baida\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Sea Turtles Found Dead On Ramlet El Baida"},"content":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s ecology is in jeopardy, as 1,000 tons of sticky black tar reportedly washed up on Southern Lebanese sea shores last February. The spill resulted in clumps of black oil that spread throughout several beaches near the capital of Beirut, causing a major marine crisis that could exacerbate the already worrying state of pollution in the country.<br \/>  <br \/>  <B>WARNING: Disturbing images.<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Below are videos from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Beirut?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Beirut<\/a>\u2019s last public beach Ramlet al-Baida <br><br>\u201cBack in 2003, this beach was full. People from all over the world used to come here, you can\u2019t imagine. Now look at us, look at this tragedy. No tourists, no money and now even our sea is gone\u201d Ali, 53 told me <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IzVYsRJhqG\">pic.twitter.com\/IzVYsRJhqG<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Ghada Alsharif | \u063a\u0627\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u064a\u0641 (@GhadaaSharif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhadaaSharif\/status\/1377177530340270081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  After almost two months, beaches are no longer home to numerous sea animals \u2013 especially sea turtles. In Sour, many of the affected beaches are protected habitats for the turtles.<br \/>  <br \/>  Today, two sea turtles were found dead on the Beirut\u2019s public shore of Ramlet El Baida. <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two dead turtles sit on the shore of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Beirut?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Beirut<\/a>\u2019s Ramlet al-Baida<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sur?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sur<\/a> Coast Nature Reserve, a nesting site for endangered loggerhead and green sea turtles, is one of the most polluted areas <br><br>\u201cThree baby turtles that were submerged in oil suffocated,\u201d said the reserve\u2019s director <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pf1ZzWSt0n\">pic.twitter.com\/Pf1ZzWSt0n<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Ghada Alsharif | \u063a\u0627\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u064a\u0641 (@GhadaaSharif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhadaaSharif\/status\/1377189996403253249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  It has also been reported that the bodies of at least four other turtles have also been found since the spill. <br \/>  <br \/>  As the toxins remain unattended to, the polluted sand will later grow to much bigger problems for Lebanon\u2019s marine life. Considering that no governmental action will take place, we urge volunteers to help the NGOs that have been dedicated to cleaning up the oil spill.<br \/> <br \/> 1","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s ecology is in jeopardy, as 1,000 tons of sticky black tar reportedly washed up on Southern Lebanese sea shores last February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":622717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-61690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[112],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two Sea Turtles Found Dead On Ramlet El Baida<\/title>\n<meta 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