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      ITALY; UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      The article reports that about 60 newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles wandered into a pizza restaurant on a beach in southern Italy in August 2008. The restaurant's lights drew the threatened reptiles since artificial lights act as a stimulus for them, according to Paolo Casale, head of the World Wide Fund for Nature's turtle program in Italy. In the Calabria region, where the hatchlings swam ashore, only a few sea turtles nest each year. In the U.S. and other countries that support larger turtle populations, artificially lit beaches pose a serious threat to the animals.