A fund for injured turtles

Many of the animals need surgeries which cost between 5,000 – 20,000 baht depending on their conditions. Injuries from accident (e.g. broken shell) often takes longer than other cases in the recovery phase. After the recovery, they are released to the wild – an area with as little human impact as possible. Apart from the surgery cost, there is about 500 baht expense per animal per month.

VMARC has founded an aquatic animal saving fund as a mean to raise donation for purchase of medical tools, medicines and to smoothly continue the support for animals.

Additional information

The fund will be contributed to saving lives of all types of turtles including sea turtles – this includes heavily injured turtles that are too vulnerable to be released back to the wild as well. Most of the sea turtles at VMARC are from the wild (not a pet turtle) or from illegal trade. They usually suffer from eating plastics and foreign items including coins and other indigestible litter.

Once the injured animal case is reported, VMARC specialist will provide First-Aid guidance to the reporter before admitting the animal to the center. Once arrives at the center the animal will receive a thorough check by a vet or a specialist. Some of them receive an x-ray, ultrasound, endoscopes, or CT scan as part of the diagnosis.

Turtles with injured shells usually need one month to recover. In some cases, the animal need to stay at the center for the rest of their lives due to heavy injury on their face or mouth which disable them from finding food in the nature