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Shortly before the circuit breaker started in April, a man came across the gruesome remains of a sea turtle on a beach in Pasir Ris Park.
It was only on Thursday (October 8) that he decided to share the photos he took on Facebook. On the Nature Society (Singapore) Facebook group, a man calling himself Mikewong Yewmee recounted the moment he was alerted to the deceased sea turtle on March 29.
“That Sunday a young woman approached me and asked if I wanted to see a dead turtle,” he wrote.
Upon arriving at the site itself, he discovered that the animal clearly did not die of natural causes. The graphic photos he took showed that the large sea turtle had half its head cut off while its guts spilled through a laceration in its shell.
Estimating it to be 1.2 meters long, the man assumed that the turtle had died after being cut by a motorboat propeller. Netizens argued that the damage is too massive for a ship’s propeller to inflict and suggested that it could have been due to a much larger ship.
However, according to an advisory from the National Parks Board (NParks), hawksbill turtles are often seen along the Singapore Strait, which means they are more likely to be seen in East Coast Park rather than Paris Ris. Park.
In fact, there have been an increased number of local turtle sightings and nests in recent years, NParks says, and critically endangered hawksbill turtles have washed ashore in East Coast Park earlier this year to lay eggs.
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As for the mutilated sea turtle at Pasir Ris, Mikewong noted that NParks was alerted to the incident at the time. The board directed AsiaOne to its advisory to members of the public that they may find live sea turtles on beaches, which includes calling the NParks hotline and staying away from the animal and its eggs.
