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ISSUE NO. 1782
29 Aug - 4 Sept 2019
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Turtle rescued from tangle A LOGGERHEAD turtle is recovering at an Equinac marine life rescue association centre after a Garrucha jet-ski company came across the creature tangled up in discarded fishing nets on Sunday afternoon. It had fishing line tightly wrapped round its front right fin, which was severely inflamed. With the help of Guardia Civil, Mojacar-based British Equinac volunteers Alex Lawson and Adele Land and fellow volunteer Tony Navarro from a local diving business got the large loggerhead into a vehicle at Garrucha port and to the dive centre for an initial assessment. Adele and Alex then recruited friends Clare Flatters Cooper and Tony Cooper to drive the turtle to Almeria in their larger vehicle, where they were met by more volunteers who took it to the Equinac centre in Almeriamar. “We were delighted to be
CREDIT: Equinac Facebook page @asociacionequinac.org
EASY DOES IT: Aquamund was transferred from Garrucha to the Equinac centre in Almerimar, where it is receiving treatment for its injured fin (inset).
able to attend a live animal as sadly many of our callouts are related to deceased dolphins and turtles,” Adele told the Euro Weekly News. Equinac posted heartfelt thanks on social media to everyone involved in the res-
cue effort of Aquamund, as the association has named the turtle, and particularly to the jet-ski company’s Javier Martinez Ubeda, commenting had it not been for him saving the creature it would have lost its fin and probably died from starvation. But Equinac also expressed its frustration that incidents like this happen at all. “We are tired of seeing how the marine environment continues to be damaged, how mortal traps are still being left for marine fauna,” the association commented.