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”.
Current patients Marine Turtle Rescue Centre: Heidi, Arti, Kaushell, June, Laetitia, Fidji, Teddy, Bubbles, Bishy and Crash Current patient Marine Turtle Rehabilitation Centre: Azura and Eve Released Beasty – Arrived 2nd December 2019, Released 6th January 2020 Beasty was was released along with Esther in a double release, accompanied by a boat-full of guests who wanted to see them off. … Read More
Current patients Marine Turtle Rescue Centre: Heidi, Eve, Arti, Kaushell, Amal, Beasty, Esther, June and Shimmi. Current patient Marine Turtle Rehabilitation Centre: Azura Released Talia – Arrived 21st November 2019, Released 20th December Talia’s release was delayed for a couple of days due to bad weather, but on the 20th December there was finally a lull in the storm. A … Read More
Current patients Marine Turtle Rescue Centre: Heidi, Eve, Artemis, Kaushell, Talia, and Amal Current patient Marine Turtle Rehabilitation Centre: Azura Released Orla – Arrived 18th October 2019, Released 30th November 2019 Orla has been released! Her release went smoothly and she went straight down! We will miss her. She was a very relaxed turtle and it was a pleasure to … Read More
Our Visiting Vet Program has been a great success! In our first season, we welcomed five visiting vets who brought new skills, medications and equipment that benefited our turtle patients and resident vets alike. In return, they got hands on experience working with wild sea turtles in a tropical location.
Current patients Marine Turtle Rescue Centre: Heidi, Eve, Artemis, KG, Orla and Kaushell Current patient Marine Turtle Rehabilitation Centre: Azura In the last few weeks we have had a couple of non-turtle patients: a water hen and a bat baby! The water hen, Gimpy, had a severely broken and infected leg. After a successful surgery he is now back with … Read More
Current patients Marine Turtle Rescue Centre: Heidi, Eve, Artemis, KG and Orla Current patient Marine Turtle Rehabilitation Centre: Azura We are very pleased to announce the opening of our new Turtle Rehabilitation Centre at One & Only Reethi Rah, North Male Atoll! The centre has one large tank and can accommodate one to two turtles, depending on their size. The … Read More
Current patients: Heidi, Eve, Artemis, Azura,Thomas and KG We have been busy trying to keep our sea turtle patients busy with various enrichment activities in the last few weeks. Sea turtles like to engage with their food and work out how to get it, so we have been feeding them “fish-icles”! We have also provided a ball for some of … Read More
