Terri the Turtle, a beautiful endangered
loggerhead turtle was washed up on the shores of Jersey in the Channel Islands
on 10 January 2016. She urgently needs our help.
According to the New Era Veterinary Group, when
Terri was found she was "cold and stunned" and efforts were made
immediately to try and raise her temperature. Whilst the Veterinary
hospital has been able to provide medication and shelter to the turtle, efforts
are now urgently needed to transport her to a warmer climate for further
medication/rehabilitation and eventual release.
Loggerhead turtles are incredible creatures and
have a cosmopolitan distribution, nesting over the broadest geographical range of any
sea turtle. They live in temperate to tropical regions and migrate huge
distances to find nesting areas. Adelita (a female loggerhead turtle) became
the first animal of any kind to be tracked across an ocean basin, she travelled
an extraordinary 9,000 miles from Mexico across the pacific to nesting grounds
in Japan.
However, loggerhead turtles are facing a number
of threats in the wild, ranging from becoming entangled in fishing gear and
plastic, to the destruction and encroachment of habitat by humans and are classified
as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. They
desperately need our help.
The New Era Group is looking to raise £22,000 to help transport this amazing turtle to a warmer climate for further rehabilitation. Please visit the link here http://gogetfunding.com/get-terri-the-turtle-home/ to see how you can help donate and return this amazing creature back to the wild.
Thank you.
A blogpost written by Harry Wright
References:
http://gogetfunding.com/get-terri-the-turtle-home/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-35253213
http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwnet%2Fnature%2Fepisodes%2Fvoyage-of-the-lonely-turtle%2Finterview-wallace-j-nichols%2F2508%2F&date=2010-05-29
