Hundred of foreigner tourists who enjoying the beauty of Kuta’s wave and sand at Kuta Beach of Badung regency participated in freeing 51 baby turtles into the sea on Saturday (May 22).

Soon they heard about an event of freeing turtle babies into the sea, as they were rare species of “olive ridley” barely a day old, make lots of tourists went to the hatcheries site at the beach area that is also famous worldwide.

The freeing also attended by local Balinese figures as well as ProFauna who for all along supported the turtle preservation activity and other animal rescue activity in Bali.

“All of those turtle babies hatched last night, now we freed them into their habitat on sea,” said head of Coast Unit Security Officers, I Gusti Ngurah Tresna, contacted in the middle of turtle freeing event.

Those baby turtles were the first to hatch, the other eggs predicted would hatch on May 28 this year.

At least 2.000 turtle eggs found by the officers as well as tourists around the beach since April.

Those sea turtles hatched at the “Sea Turtle Conservation” hatcheries located on the land belongs to the local village at a nest measured 10 x 7 x 3 meter.

According to Tresna, the hatcheries site designed specifically just like turtle and located at the beachside.

From that big turtle shape-like building, placed above it was the sand for hatcheries. The building roof has a cover that can be open anytime as sun and wind ventilator.

Tresna mentioned the rare turtle eggs also known as olive ridley, needs around 45 days to hatch.

“According to our commitment, all of the turtle will be freed to the sea as its habitat in order to preserve this rare animal so as not to become extinct,” he said.

Besides has a function for rare animal preservation, with the making of hatcheries site for turtle incubation site, the place also becomes one of tourist attraction.

“We hope for this new turtle hatcheries site could become new Kuta Beach tourism icon,” said Tresna as he accompanied by Wayan Bali, the project implementer of Bali “Sea Turtles Conservation.”

News by Antara Bali