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Six turtles return to the Mediterranean for Christmas

28 December 2013 - 00: 02

Six specimens of loggerhead turtle returned to the sea yesterday, after spending several months in the Oceanogràfic recovering from different wounds. These are turtles accidentally captured by fishing boats or wounds from swallowing plastic that have been rehabilitated thanks to the ARCA project of the sea in which Dénia collaborates.

The Albaranas beach was the setting chosen for this release, to which hundreds of people traveled, including a multitude of children who took advantage of the holidays of Christmas to see live the return to the sea of ​​these six specimens.

It is the sixth year in which this release of Christmas tortoises takes place every year in different parts of the Region. This year, after Dénia joined the turtle recovery project, the Dianense beach has been chosen to return them to the sea.

In 2013 have been 24 turtles recovered thanks to this program, all of them already at sea. Since the program began, in 1995, 450 turtle specimens have been rescued with an 90% recovery.

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