Specialists from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries release an endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle, which was rescued in New England, and rehabilitated by the Audubon Nature Institute, into the Gulf of Mexico, 24 miles off the coast of Louisiana, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. The institute released nearly two dozen of the more than 1,200 cold-stunned young Kemps ridley sea turtles were stranded in November and December in New England. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)