{"id":137976,"date":"2025-09-12T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137976\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:37:08","slug":"rescuers-race-against-time-to-save-a-giant-animal-buried-alive-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137976\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers Race Against Time To Save A Giant Animal Buried Alive On The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-element-index=\"0\">Every year, countless sea turtles arrive on the shores of Veracruz, Mexico, to lay their eggs on the beach before returning to the ocean. Sadly, for one turtle mom-to-be, it nearly became a one-way trip.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"1\">Norma Angelica Diaz Velazquez is a volunteer with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/campamentoTortuguerodeSantander\/?locale=es_LA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Campamento Tortuguero de Santander<\/a>, a local organization that protects and monitors the turtles\u2019 nesting sites. While on patrol recently, she and her colleagues came upon this:<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"2\">A turtle whose digging near a tangle of tree roots led to her getting trapped.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"0\">It\u2019s unclear exactly how long the turtle had been stuck in that position, her shell wedged within the root system, but she appeared to have no way of freeing herself.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"1\">To make matters worse, as the team worked to dislodge her, the turtle pressed forward in fear \u2014 digging deeper into the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"2\">The team worked to cut her free of the roots surrounding her, knowing they were in a race against time.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"0\">By the time a path had been cleared of roots, the turtle had become almost entirely buried in the loose soil and sand. She was still heading in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"1\">But with a few vigorous hoists on her shell, the turtle was soon put back on the right course.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"0\">The Dodo contacted Campamento Tortuguero de Santander to learn more about this incident, but our request for comment was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"1\">Though understandably exhausted from that long ordeal, the turtle eventually made her way back out to sea \u2014 hopefully to return to safer ground upon which to lay her eggs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedodo.com\/daily-dodo\/giant-sea-turtle-trapped-on-land-had-given-up-hope-of-ever-being-saved\" data-vars-href=\"https:\/\/www.thedodo.com\/daily-dodo\/giant-sea-turtle-trapped-on-land-had-given-up-hope-of-ever-being-saved\" data-vars-ga-action=\"related link\" data-vars-ga-label=\"daily-dodo\/giant-sea-turtle-trapped-on-land-had-given-up-hope-of-ever-being-saved\" data-vars- rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757659028_980_flatten;crop;webp=auto;jpeg_quality=60.jpg\" alt=\"Man Spots 'Dead' Sea Turtle Trapped On Land And Brings Her Back To Life\" width=\"116\" height=\"156\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;aspect-ratio:116 \/ 156\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedodo.com\/daily-dodo\/giant-sea-turtle-trapped-on-land-had-given-up-hope-of-ever-being-saved\" data-vars-href=\"https:\/\/www.thedodo.com\/daily-dodo\/giant-sea-turtle-trapped-on-land-had-given-up-hope-of-ever-being-saved\" data-vars-ga-action=\"related link\" data-vars-ga-label=\"daily-dodo\/giant-sea-turtle-trapped-on-land-had-given-up-hope-of-ever-being-saved\" data-vars- rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Spots &#8216;Dead&#8217; Sea Turtle Trapped On Land And Brings Her Back To Life\u201cWhen I touched her, she instantly let out a sigh and she started to move her head.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year, countless sea turtles arrive on the shores of Veracruz, Mexico, to lay their eggs on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,6586,44,66,2225,18661,6584,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-137976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daily-dodo","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-standard","14":"tag-stephen-messenger","15":"tag-the-dodo","16":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}