40 dead turtles found on the beaches of Rimini, Italy

Bad news on the Riviera for the marine world. Between Saturday and Monday were forty turtles death retrieved sull’arenile between Ravenna and Misano. It is of specimens of different sizes and most found beached, already in a state of decomposition.
 
Among these was unearthed Gigi, a turtle treated by Cetacean Foundation in Riccione last year and released in Cesenatico on 8 August 2014. The specimen was recognized due to the plate that had been applied to the front flipper.
 
Ravenna has been activated the regional network for the protection of sea turtles and cetaceans, with a direct channel to the Foundation to ask riccionese transporting carcasses Institute zooprofilattico Forli which gave immediate availability.
 
Turtle death will be made ​​now the autopsy to know the causes of death of these animals in the Adriatic Sea.
 
“It is the sadness for the recurrence of these phenomena – said Sauro Pari, the Cetacean Foundation Emilia Romagna – more and more frequent. And ‘therefore necessary to understand the causes of death of the turtles and take action to resolve them. “
Courtesy of ilrestodelcarlino.it

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