It is very likely, the guards commented, that unknown people got rid of the tortoise by throwing it into the terrace of an apartment building in the Corte della Seta. Both the forest police of Valdobbiadene and the CITES nucleus of Vicenza were alerted
SERNAGLIA. On Friday afternoon they found a turtle on the terrace and promptly alerted the zoophile guards. Like that example of “You pay a circle“, A protected marsh aquatic species, had ended up” grazing “at that height in a private property, is a question that has left many doubts.
«No one in the area had looked for the reptile» explain the volunteers from Sernaglia «and even the research with the microchip gave negative results». It is very likely, the guards commented, that unknown people got rid of the tortoise by throwing it into the terrace of an apartment building in the Corte della Seta. Both the forest police of Valdobbiadene and the CITES nucleus of Vicenza were alerted.
The little turtle, in the meantime, assisted by the volunteers with water and food, surprisingly, last Sunday, in the morning, also laid 5 eggs. Yesterday the happy ending: with the OK of Cites, the specimen, considered a non-invasive native species, was released in the Fontane Bianche oasis.