Protect a home for 24 hours sea turtle in Valencia to protect their eggs and guarantees the maximum possible number of offspring to stand out. This is the aim of the initiative, supported by Generalitat and a local NGO.
Generalitat Valenciana Ministry of Ecological Transition, together with NGO ‘Xaloc’, Spain inaugurated the camp at Parador del Saler (Valencia) to care for and protect the only currently active sea turtle nest in the Mediterranean.
The loggerhead sea turtle is a large sea turtle often called a sea turtle because of the ease with which fishermen catch it at the surface. Distributed in temperate, tropical and subtropical waters of the world.
Julio Gómez, managing director of the Natural Environment, attended the launch this week along with Parador director, Albufera Natural Park representatives and collaborating companies, where he highlighted the “opportunities that the Valencia coast offers for the protection and recovery of severely endangered species”, worthy of this unique initiative to support the success of spawning. as well as giving.
Volunteers and a team of volunteers will keep an eye on the nest for 24 hours until the eggs hatch and the baby turtles are born. the moment they will be transferred to Oceanogràfic for their veterinary work.
The nest was located on the beach of Les Ortigues in Guardamar del Segura on July 26. By one of the cleaning workers who attended a talk on how to find sea turtle nests given by Conselleria and ‘Xaloc’ staff.
Transferred to l’Albufera de Valencia.
The animal laid 131 eggs (largest spawning recorded in the Community of Valencia), 100 of which were transferred to La Punta beach, a protected area in the Albufera Natural Park. in order to improve the conditions for its viability, given that the spawning area is heavily flooded by tourists.
The remaining 31 were taken to an incubator in the Valencia Oceanography, where the first tortoise was born. This fact indicates that the eggs buried on the beach are in the last weeks of their embryonic development.
The aquarium reported that only two of the eggs brought to its facility were fertile. and finally a turtle who managed to survive. The reasons for the low fertility percentage of the nest are unknown, but several factors are taken into account, such as the female’s inexperience or the large number of spawns, which are being studied to try to understand the colonization process of sea turtles. our shores.
Some of the group of turtle pups will be released at the spawning beach in Guardamar del Segura, while the rest will stay in the oceanographic center’s Marine Animal Rescue and Conservation Area (ARCA del Mar) for their first year. When this period of greater survival capacity is over, released with a GPS emitter to follow its movements in the sea and they know the paths they follow.
Public administrations (Generalitat and Valencia City Council), NGOs (Xaloc and the Global Nature Foundation) and private companies (Herbolarios Navarro, Decathlon, Singularu and Ribé Salat) collaborate at the camp.
If there are sea turtles on the beach, the animal should not be disturbed. or, according to experts, has not been touched under any circumstances. In this case call 112 or other similar establishments and have the turtle move along the beach without any mishaps.
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