By Associated Press - Thursday, June 29, 2017

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) - Wildlife officials in Florida have returned four sea turtles to the Gulf of Mexico.

The Northwest Florida Daily News reports the members of the Gulfarium C.A.R.E. Foundation, which rehabilitates sick and injured sea turtles, released two sub-adult female loggerheads and two juvenile green turtles at Henderson Beach State Park on Wednesday.

Hundreds of bystanders cheered on the reptiles as they made their way out to sea.



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Information from: Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Fla.), https://www.nwfdailynews.com

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