Kien Giang (VNA) – An endangered turtleweighing about 80 kg with a length of 1.2 m and a width of 0.8 m was caught inthe net of fishermen and released back to the sea in the Mekong Delta provinceof Kien Giang on May 5.
Earlier, in the morning of the same day, while onpatrol in the waters of Bai Dong area, Tho Chau commune, a working group ofBai Dong Border Guard Station under Tho Chau Border Guard Station discovered theanimal.
The turtle,scientifically known as Lepidochelys olivacea, is included on the red book ofthreatened species.
Vietnamese laws prohibit the hunting, trading, transporting, storing, andkilling of such wild animals./.