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The president of the Oceanogràfic Foundation, Celia Calabuig, presented in the Parador de El Saler the campaign "Turtles in the Mediterranean", in which more than 40 coastal municipalities of the Valencian Community, Murcia and the Balearic Islands, among which Águilas is located .

The purpose of the awareness campaign is to inform the citizens of the participating municipalities, bathers, tourists and travelers of the presence of the loggerhead turtle ("Caretta, caretta") on the coasts and, in the event of a sighting , the most convenient and effective is to notify 112, activating the protocol provided in each autonomous community.

In the case of Águilas, the protocol corresponding to beached, set or the circumstance in which the sighted tortoise was found, coordinated by the Wildlife Recovery Center of El Valle, would be launched.

Our municipality is also a member of the "Caretta in sight" and "Tortuga Territory" programs, of sighting, location of trails and nests and nesting attempts of Tortuga Boba, an informative day between municipal personnel having been held in early summer, Operators the beach cleaning service, their surveillance staff, associations of environmental volunteers and the public in general.

In this regard, the mayor of Environmental Education, Ginés Desiderio Navarro, said "that, precisely, since yesterday, the protocol established in the municipality has been activated before the possibility of nesting a sea turtle, and more specifically a loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) , on the coast of our municipality, after the failed attempt last night in the Calblanque Regional Park. "

This protocol implies a special surveillance of the traces that the females of Caretta caretta leave in the sand of the beach when they dig a nest and spawn.

For this, both the Local Police, as Civil Protection and beach cleaning operators, by the municipality, as well as environmental volunteer organizations, are conducting supervision rounds or coordinating actions on the beaches where it is possible that this happen

In case you see a trail, notify 112.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas