An animal welfare organisation has accused ChlorakasCommunity Council employees of deliberately hurling and kicking a dead sea turtle, demanding immediate dismissals and criminal prosecution as four municipal workers face public nuisance charges.
The center does research on sea turtles’ nesting, feeding, wintering, and migration patterns, while also treating and rehabilitating injured sea turtles to enable their return to natural habitats.
The Department of Fisheries and Marine Research (DFMR) has issued a rebuke of municipal workers filmed mistreating a sea turtle carcass, labelling the incident “unprecedented and reprehensible” in an official statement on Wednesday.
Video footage emerged on social media on Monday, showing four men, reportedly employees of the Chlokaras community council, kicking and throwing a sea turtle on a local beach ... Sea turtles and their eggs have been protected by law in Cyprus since 1971.
Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and detected plastics in 7 of the 10 individuals studied ...Impact of plastics on sea turtles.