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Date Published: 11/08/2023

Another endangered loggerhead turtle lays its eggs on Cartagena beach

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The turtle laid 117 eggs on the Negrete beach, the second laying this year after the one on Isla Plana in July

Another endangered loggerhead turtle lays its eggs on Cartagena beach

The regional park of Calblanque was the scene this Thursday August 10 of the second loggerhead turtle nest this summer in the Region of Murcia. One of these endangered animals laid no fewer than 117 eggs on the Playa del Negrete yesterday, adding to the already impressive number of loggerhead turtle eggs laid on the Spanish coast this year.

A volunteer from the program ‘Territorio Tortuga’ (‘Turtle Territory’), which scours the beaches of Calblanque in search of traces of possible nests, sighted two marks in the sand belonging to a loggerhead turtle on Thursday.

They quickly followed the recommended procedure, which is to phone the 112 emergency phone number to call staff from the El Valle Wildlife Recovery Centre the beach to check if any eggs had been laid.

“After digging in the two trails left by a loggerhead turtle, it was possible to verify that there were eggs in one of them. To facilitate their surveillance, the decision was to move the eggs from this nest to just 10 metres from the one we already have inside Calblanque beach,” explained the general director of Natural Environment, María Cruz Ferreira.

Of the 117 eggs found in the nest, exactly the same amount as on the previous occasion, 104 were translocated and another 13 were taken to the El Valle Centre to be kept in incubators.

We will have to wait until the last week of August or first week of September to see if the first 117 eggs deposited on the beach of Calblanque hatch or not.

Meanwhile, on the very same day, the Regional Government in Murcia released another endangered loggerhead turtle back into the wild on the Playa de la Carolina in Águilas, its 33rd in the last 10 years.

These animals are rescued when they become tangled in fishing nets or harmed by eating plastics, and they are cared for at the El Valle Centre until they are ready to be reintroduced into the wild.

If you come across turtles or turtle traces on the beach, the General Directorate of Natural Environment stresses that the most important thing is not to disturb the animal. Stay out of their field of vision and do not take pictures using flash. Instead, you should be sure to stand at least than 20 metres away and make sure you remember the exact spot where you saw it before calling 112 to report what happened and the location.

Images: CARM

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