Light pollution can discourage mother turtles from nesting and confuse baby turtles’ natural survival instinct to move towards the lowest brightest horizon. On a natural beach, this is the ocean reflecting the night sky.

Hatchlings on urban beaches cannot find the low bright natural horizon due to light pollution. Disoriented, they crawl away from the ocean, becoming exhausted, vulnerable to predators and, sadly, die.

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TURTLES ABOUT, LIGHTS OUT!