The Boba Turtle is recognizable because of his heart -shaped scale and his big head. It feeds on small fish, molluscs, jellyfish and shellfish, whose shells can break its powerful jaw.
Many species of plants and animals travel through the oceans that stick to their shell and turn this species into a real floating reef. For pure anthropogenic causes it is in a state of Vulnerability according to the IUCN Red List.
They restore two foolish turtles in Murcia
The Since 2010, community has released a total of 50 copies of Bobas Turtles who were previously treated in the Wildlife Recovery Center (CRFS) De Vallei. The Minister of Environment, Universities, Research and Mar Menor, Juan María Vázquez, released two Subadult copies this morning on the beach of Torre Demolóda, in San Pedro del Pinatar. These two copies of Caretta Caretta They are the first to save, repair and are released on the coasts of the Murcia region in 2025.
Juan María Vázquez indicated that both copies were performed a detailed clinical assessment, including image diagnostic tests, which stated that the animals had no injuries and were in good condition. They were then transferred to an adequate rehabilitation installation, in which Check your swimming and immersion capacityAs well as they have fed correctly.
Loose Location -Knowledge of these copies took place on 19 and 20 February. The specimens presented a similar case studies, because both had interaction with fishing arts, framed in a transmallo and were transferred to the facilities of the port of San Pedro del Pinatar. Juan María Vázquez thanked the collaboration of the fishermen of the Brotherhood of Sal Pedro del Pinatar, “because it was the ones that they dragged so that they could be restored.”
He First copy was collected about 2.5 kilometers from the coast of San Pedro del PinatarUpon his arrival at CRFS he weighed 31.75 kilos, and the second, which weighed 12.6 kilos, was collected approximately 3 kilometers in the immediate vicinity of the island of Farallón, in the vicinity of Isla Gosa, in San Javier.
These two copies They join the four individuals of the same species that were released in 2024After entering the facilities of the Wildlife Recovery Center ‘El Valle’. To facilitate their next -up, they identified with a subcutaneous microchip and with identification, within the ‘marking program of Turtle Marine depends on the Ministry for Ecological Transition.
The Tortuga Boba (Caretta Caretta) It is classified as vulnerable, according to the list of wild species in the special protection regime and the Spanish catalog of endangered species and as at risk for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Under them The most important threats appear plastics and different types of flotation wasteThe accidental catch in fishing networks, the registration in remains of fiber or thirsty thirst and, to a lesser extent, collision with boats or the destruction and change of nesting beaches.
The detection, classification and categorization of all threats with regard to this kind of Tortuga It is part of and is part of the objectives that are pursued by the actions that were carried out in the project ‘Die into the knowledge of threats that influence the cetaceans and sea turtles in the Murcia region’granted by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) Within the framework of the plan for recovery, transformation and resilience 2021 financed by the European Union. It is therefore intended to go one step further in the scientific knowledge of the causes of threats that these species have suffered, with the aim of achieving a possible judge of such effects.