Five turtles, delivered in the last three years to the Porto d'Abrigo of Zoomarine (Center for the Rehabilitation of Aquatic Specimens), return "home" to their wild environment, this Thursday, 9th September, in an annual tradition about 20 years old.
Porto d'Abrigo says that «this will always be an emotional and symbolic farewell», as «it will be a “farewell” after many and distinct clinical challenges (which, not infrequently, can cost the lives of such special beings. alive)”, as well as because “it represents the almost utopian struggle to combat the growing daily threats that humans (consciously or unconsciously) create, all over the world, to such extraordinary animals”.
The five specimens, which the Rehabilitation Center named Picasso, Quasimodo, Ramil, Splinter and Switch, belong to the two endemic species of tortoises in Portugal: leper Mauremys e orbicularis emys, respectively the Mediterranean tortoise and the striated tortoise.
They are all specimens of species with conservation status, that is, species threatened with extinction in the medium or long term, and this explains "the importance of these delicate rehabilitation and conservation efforts".
«The weights, sizes and histories of these turtles vary enormously, but in common they have the victory over adverse times and unfair difficulties», which, in times of pandemic, has helped marine biologists to understand «the importance of not giving up and always fighting for try to overcome the adversities of life», stresses the note.
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