Rescuing a Sea Turtle Named Ed by Ed Stoddard SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (Reuters) — I had come to this sandy island on the southeast coast of Texas to do environment stories, including one on efforts led by a largely volunteer organization to protect sea turtles. The group, Sea Turtles Inc., focuses on protecting the nests and hatchlings of the endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle but also rescues other stranded or injured turtles. Sea Turtles’ president, Shane Wilson, shares my passion for salt water fly fishing so we went to the pier on the south side of the island just after dawn to try our luck. We saw a small Atlantic green turtle in obvious distress. "This is not good," Wilson said as we watched the animal struggle to get its head above water to breathe. It seemed to be almost stationary, apparently caught on something. We tried to use my fly rod to hook the fishing line entangling the creature and pull it in, but that didn't work. Wilson swam the 5 yards to the animal, grabbed the fishing line it was caught on and hauled it in. The incident drove home how the careless use of fishing line—this would have been discarded by anglers using a rod and reel—can inflict serious damage on wildlife. On a far larger scale turtle populations around the world are getting hammered by commercial long-line and netting operations, which often discard their carcasses as "by-catch." Our rescued turtle had some scars from its ordeal and we took it to Sea Turtles’ facility. I held the animal out in front of me as it dog paddled in the air, as Wilson drove. The center's curator, Jeff George, weighed the animal—8.5 lbs (4 kg)—and gave it some mild antibiotic. Flatteringly, the center's staff named the little turtle Ed. 1 Drag each tile to the correct box. In what order should the sentences be arranged to reflect the best paraphrase of the text



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