From the Andamans to Indonesia. Sheela's long journey

Sheela, as it is affectionately called by its 'controllers' is a dermochelys coriacea, whose movements are tracked via satellite by the Center for Ecological Sciences (CES) in Bangalore, India. This morning, CES announced that leatherback sea turtle No. 103333 (Sheela), after leaving the West Bay of Little Andaman Island 145 days ago, and traveling 2000 kilometers, is approaching the coast of Indonesia. Not much is known about the habits of these huge turtles, which spend their lives in the ocean: the males always offshore, while the females go to the beaches only to lay their eggs. The largest specimen ever seen measured about three meters and weighed almost a ton. These creatures can dive over a thousand meters deep and stay underwater for an hour or more. They are part of the protected species and are threatened by the looting of their eggs on the beaches and by the ingestion of plastic bags, which they mistake for jellyfish. Long live Sheela.

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