BP’s Burning of Sea Turtles in Oil Operations Covered by Media Globally

The story of turtles getting burned alive by BP, the lawsuits we filed to stop it, and related news about turtles and the Gulf oil spill have been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian in the United Kingdom and in blogs and other media outlets around the world. Here are links to some of the stories:

Deal near to save turtles from Gulf oil burnings Reuters

Sea Turtles Being Burned Alive? Fox 8 TV New Orleans

BP accused of killing endangered sea turtles in cleanup operation, The Guardian, UK

Turtle Deaths Called Result of Shrimping, Not Oil Spill

Sea Turtle Group To BP: Stop Controlled Burns Or We’ll Sue, Houston Public Radio

New Orleans Times Picayune, Animal conservation groups say they will sue BP, federal agencies over turtles allegedly caught in oil spill burns

Groups to sue BP, Coast Guard over sea turtles burned alive, Miami Herald

Marin group sues BP over alleged turtle burning

Associated Press, Some 70,000 turtle eggs to be whisked far from oil

Gulf oil spill: Groups say intended suit to stop BP and Coast Guard from burning turtles alive, San Francisco Examiner blog, e

Endangered sea turtles being burned alive in “burn fields” operations, The Money Times,

BP accused of burning alive endangered sea turtles, Digital Journal

Rare sea turtles allegedly torched alive in the Gulf, The Scavenger blog