Current patients: Heidi, Azura, Discovery, Xena, Ash & Harry New Arrivals Harry, Arrived 20 December 2020 Harry is an adult male hawksbill turtle. He was found floating amongst a big pile of rubbish at a resort in the Alif Alif Atoll. He didn’t appear to have any external wounds, but he was floating with his back end up, very lethargic … Read More
Current patients: Heidi, Azura, Discovery, and Xena. New Arrival Xena is an adult female Olive ridley. She was found floating upside down and missing her left front flipper in Lhaviyani Atoll back in October 2019. She has been rehabilitating at Atoll Marine Centre all this while but recently started deteriorating, refusing food, losing weight and showing signs of shifting buoyancy … Read More
Current patients: Heidi, Azura, Discovery and Hubert. Released Coral – Arrived 11 July 2020 Coral had come on leaps and bounds since arriving at the rescue centre in July. She arrived buoyant but with some good food and time to recover, she started to be able to dive beautifully. Her shell was looking great too and so we are happy … Read More
Current patients – Marine Turtle Rescue Centre: Heidi, Arti, Azura, Discovery and Coral. Current patients – Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Centre: Temporarily closed Released Eve – Arrived 26th December 2018, Released 30 July 2020 After 19 months of rehabilitation, Eve was finally ready to go home and we are so pleased to announce that we released her on the 30th July. … Read More
Current patients – Marine Turtle Rescue Centre: Heidi, Arti, and Discovery. Current patients -Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Centre: Azura and Eve. Released Mascha – Arrived 24 January, Released 13 April 2020 Mascha arrived in late January with a badly damaged front flipper that required amputation. After around 3 months of care in our Rescue Centre, her wound healed well and she … Read More
Current patients Marine Turtle Rescue Centre: Heidi, Arti, Fidji, Masha, and Discovery. Current patients Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Centre: Azura and Eve. Released Bishy – Arrived 9th January, Released 29th March 2020 Bishy’s wounds healed really well. Once we started catching her resting at the bottom the tank we knew she was nearly ready to be released. Bishy took turns with … Read More
IPNLF and ORP pledge to jointly tackle the scourge of lost and abandoned fishing gear that’s haunting environmentally critical marine life and habitats. The partnership builds on the recently announced initiative to collect and upcycle ghost gear, funded by the inaugural Joanna Toole Ghost Gear Solutions Award.
Current patients Marine Turtle Rescue Centre: Heidi, Arti, Fidji, Teddy, Bishy, Masha, Sandy and Discovery Current patient Marine Turtle Rehabilitation Centre: Azura and Eve Released Bubbles – Arrived 8th January 2020, Released 16th February 2020 Bubbles injury healed well and about a week after having her stitches out she was released. On the way to the release site she started … Read More
Worldwide less than 30 percent of researchers are women. And according to UNESCO data (2014 – 2016), only around 5 per cent of all female students select the natural science fields in higher education globally. Here at ORP we have 85% female scientists on our team! They come from 6 different countries with varied backgrounds. But they all love sea turtles.
Dr. Shiva Sawmy spent 3 weeks as a Visiting Vet at the Marine Turtle Rescue Centre in September 2019. He called the experience “An otherworldly adventure in the Maldives – veterinary care, rehabilitation and release of injured wild sea turtles”.
