Turtle without fins stranded on Kuta beach

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On December 24, 2022, the weather in Bali was observed to be less friendly with relatively high rainfall and large sea waves with strong wind gusts, at Kuta beach there was observed a lot of debris of logs carried away by the current towards the beach and the standby Beach Rescue Unit noticed a relatively crowded beach visited by tourists.

At 08.15 the turtle conservation and Education Center ( TCEC) team received an emergency call from the BSTs kuta team, reporting a foreign tourist who did not know the country of origin found a female olive ridley turtle that was exposed and was followed up by the Bali seaturtle society team in kuta to provide assistance by reporting the information to the TCEC team to, many scratches were found on the Shell due to the impact of hard objects that float and, ruptured on the lower left shell, with the provision of first aid to cover the turtle with a wet towel to be transported to Kedongangan vet for medical examination, in the early stages carried out weighing of 24 kg, carried out further examination by a team of, while the turtles are currently in tcec for health monitoring by the TCEC team by conducting treatment of fresh fish feeding and regulating the circulation of pond water monitoring treatment will continue to be carried out and report the conditions to the turtle health expert team

 

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