Loggerhead Turtles Released Into Mediterranean

On October 1, nan Torrevieja Council announced that 16 turtles entered nan oversea for nan first time, aft being calved successful La Mata astir a twelvemonth ago.

The turtles primitively were rescued from a nest laid by a turtle known arsenic “Pura Vida” connected Los Locos Beach. Once nan turtles were born, their eggs were sent complete to La Mata, wherever they
were hatched.

The babe oversea turtles were taken attraction of and bred astatine nan Oceanográfic successful Valencia, but now nan turtles were assisted successful making their measurement to nan waters of nan Mediterranean for nan first time,
in nan beingness of a number of group progressive successful their well-being.

Rosario Martínez, Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Tourism of Torrevieja City Council, attended nan typical arena arsenic good arsenic Antonio Vidal, Councillor for Environment and Beach,
Juan Antonio Pujol, Biologist, on pinch volunteers, nan section police, and more.

This breed of turtles known arsenic loggerheads, is listed connected nan International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List arsenic a susceptible species, which intends they are successful threat from nan effects of ambiance change, pollution, and different factors.

Torrevieja was chosen to beryllium nan merchandise tract of nan oversea turtles owed to nan technological rule of philopatry – which is nan rule that big females ever return, moreover decades later, to the
place wherever they were calved to laic their eggs.

The Oceanogràfic Foundation has worked pinch scientists, nan government, and nan nationalist to create investigation and tie awareness