The foolish is a turtle on medium -sized, which can reach a straight length of 120 cm scale and a weight of 200 kg. It presents a big head with a very robust peak and neck. Brown dorsal coloring with reddish or orange edges and whitish abdomen with light yellow tones. It is characterized by having two pairs of prefrontal scales in the head.
It is one Common species in the open sea, although it is also frequent in coastal areas. Small people usually swim associated with dominant sea bonds. As soon as they reach the adult stage, they show a preference for coastal habitats related to a change in food. The Bob Tortuga It has a very diverse diet that changes according to its vital stage, which is pelagic and preferably carnivorous (zoophagus) as a youth; And transfer to Neri and Omnivoor in the adult phase.
In Spanish waters, used as a preparation area in their migration to the coastal areas of the West Atlantic Ocean, individuals rarely reach adult engravings, so their presence close to the coast is scarce and most people have a mainly oceanic life with an excellent pelagic diet based on a wide range of small maminal animals. Are Category in the IUCN Red list is vulnerable.
Thousands of Bobas Turtles released
More than 150,000 Fools’ Turtles (Caretta Caretta) are released in Cabo Verde During the 2024 nesting season, according to the balance of local nature conservation organizations Projeto Biodiversity and Bios Cabo Verde, who have the support of the Hotel RIU.
On the island of Sal Last nesting season of this kind Classified as vulnerable with the first level of threat in the Red List of endangered species of the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN).
The incubation centers (daycare centers) of NGOs contribute to Cabo Verde is one of the most important nesting places for turtles for this species.
The island of Boa Vista has registered 60 % of the nests in Cabo Verde, with 22,427 in the Das Tartartugas nature reserve, of which 600 were protected in incubation centers, with a Success rate of the case of 77.9 %, which gave rise to the release of 34,592 offspring to the sea.
In addition, they followed 7,576 turtles and were saved 169. Bios Cabo Verde has also continued with experiments in nests to reduce the effects of global warming, with promising results in the balance between gender between the young people, which are conditioned by the temperature.
For his part, Projeto Biodiversity has registered 36,587 nests on the island of Sal, of which 2,225 were protected in nurseries, including one for the Riu hotels in the area. The Upholstery percentage reached 82.3 %and 115,962 puppies were released.
27 kilometers of coast was patroled on this island and 1,645 was checked Turtle In addition, the introduction of shadows in the nurseries has contributed to reducing the incubation temperature by 2 ° C, so that the share of Turtle man, one Most important size to prevent the effects of climate change. Pastive yacht has also been reduced, which has decreased from 440 cases that were detected in salt in 2021 to 110 in 2024.
Loose Bobas Turtle Nurseries are supervised BIOS Verde Volunteers and Projeto -Biodiversity With the support of RIU, which finances the food of the camps for beach monitoring. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM