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| Luzia! |
Hi, I’m Luzia the new
volunteer at MCSS. I’m 26 years old and from Switzerland. So far, I have rescued
hawksbill hatchlings from the basement of a villa and set them free on the
beach towards the ocean, and monitored a hawksbill turtle nesting. The nest was
too close to the high water line, so we had to relocate the nest further up the
beach. As for the near future...we
expect some baby sea turtles to hatch again next weekend. Hopefully they will not get disturbed by
lights and will walk straight to the sea.
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Rescued Hatchlings
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Help is on the way!
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I also saw a lot of black mud and yellow bellied mud terrapins. We captured, marked, released... trying to estimate the population size. The knowledge about terrapins is extremely limited because there are almost no studies done about them.
But both species of terrapins on the
Seychelles are classified by the IUCN as critically endangered. We captured a
large female yellow bellied terrapin. Because she was so large, we did an x-ray
of her. On the picture, we could see 18 eggs in her belly.
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Pregnant Terrapin X-ray
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