The turtles were released from Cala Arturo, where the eggs were laid a year ago
The first ten of the 21 loggerhead turtles born in the Region of Murcia for 100 years last summer were released on Monday morning, having reached a weight of one kilo, sufficient for them to survive the attention of predatory birds and fishes and improve the odds of them surviving to adulthood twentyfold.
The young turtles have spent the last year growing in the tanks of the IMIDA in San Pedro del Pinatar and acclimatising in the Oceanográfic in Valencia, before finally being released from the same beach on which they were born in Cala Arturo in Calblanque.
The ten turtles released today were all males, as, according to the experts, higher temperatures during incubation are required for the emerging turtles to be females!
The remaining eleven turtles will be released next week.
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