The researchers are conducting genetic testing on the tissue samples from the dead turtles and are now trying to determine if other turtle conservation programs have found similar turtles with cases of albinism.
“Since the discovery, we have been doing some research and haven’t yet been able to find any records of albino green turtles with no pigmentation in their eyes,” Joana Trindade, conservation community manager on Vamizi Island, told Seven Seas