Cape Town to build state-of-the-art interactive turtle rehab
Caring for stranded turtles has been the task of Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium for 20 years. Now a stand-alone Turtle Conservation Centre is to be constructed in Granger Bay.
Sea turtles, those ancient mariners of the wide oceans, are thought to have survived the Triassic Extinction 230 million years ago that paved the way for the rise of dinosaurs and the meteor strike that wiped them out 164 million years later. But now they are in terrible danger from human actions. Climate change, floating plastic, drift nets and hunting are taking their toll and all species are now listed as endangered.
Two Oceans Aquarium conservation manager Talitha Noble-Trull is on the roof of the Aquarium explaining the problem.
Source: Dailymaverick.co.za
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