TURTLE AWARENESS WEEK AT BLUE REEF AQUARIUM Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium is running a Turtle Awareness Week throughout the half-term holidays (February 12th-21st). The aquarium operates one of the most successful sea turtle rehabilitation and release programmes in the UK and is currently caring for a young loggerhead turtle which stranded on a Cornish beach … Continued
The young turtle found stranded at Gwithian Bay last week, continues to survive and is slowly responding to treatment at the Blue Reef Aquarium, Newquay. Staff are still working around the clock to provide care for it and have managed to get the turtle’s temperature up as planned, which is limited to being raised by … Continued
YOUNG TURTLE STRANDS ON CORNISH BEACH A young sea turtle has been rescued after stranding on a beach in Cornwall. The 20cms-long juvenile was discovered on Gwithian Beach near Hayle yesterday (Wednesday) and taken to Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium. The loggerhead turtle was found by David Fenwick stranded on the beach with a large number … Continued