Number of turtles stranded on British and Irish coast on the rise

Animals possibly being knocked off course by storm events on the east coast of the US and in the Caribbean

Small, wrinkled and stranded in chilly waters, young hard-shelled turtles have been turning up on the beaches of the UK and Ireland in higher numbers than usual this winter.

According to reports made to the Marine Conservation Society and Marine Environmental Monitoring, 13 juvenile turtles have been stranded since November - 12 loggerheads and one Kemp's ridley turtle.