Sea Turtle Rescue Center - South Carolina Aquarium
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Dear friends:
We sincerely appreciate your consideration of a donation to the South Carolina Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rescue Center. For years, the team at South Carolina Aquarium have been working to rescue, treat, rehabilitate, and release back into the wild sick and injured sea turtles.
When a sea turtle is found stranded or injured, theanimal is brought to the Sea Turtle Care Center for treatment. Sea turtles arrive most commonly suffering from debilitated turtle syndrome, shock from being exposed to cold temperatures, or injury from a boat strike or shark bite. Staffs veterinarians diagnose each turtle and work with Care Center staff and volunteers to provide treatments and rehabilitative care.
Patients are given IV fluids, antibiotics, vitamins and other medications. Based on the sea turtle’s condition, a variety of procedures may be performed, such as x-rays or ultrasounds. Rehabilitated sea turtles are released home in hopes that they will become reproductive members of the sea turtle population.
Rehabilitated turtles are taken to a local beach and allowed to return to the ocean once the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources clears them for release. The average turnaround time for an injured turtle is 7–8 months. The South Carolina Aquarium has rehabilitated and released over 250 sea turtles since 2000.
Your donation will help fund medicine, materials, technology, and staff help in the Sea Turtle Rescue Center.
Thank You!
Rob, Melissa and Avery Steele
We sincerely appreciate your consideration of a donation to the South Carolina Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rescue Center. For years, the team at South Carolina Aquarium have been working to rescue, treat, rehabilitate, and release back into the wild sick and injured sea turtles.
When a sea turtle is found stranded or injured, theanimal is brought to the Sea Turtle Care Center for treatment. Sea turtles arrive most commonly suffering from debilitated turtle syndrome, shock from being exposed to cold temperatures, or injury from a boat strike or shark bite. Staffs veterinarians diagnose each turtle and work with Care Center staff and volunteers to provide treatments and rehabilitative care.
Patients are given IV fluids, antibiotics, vitamins and other medications. Based on the sea turtle’s condition, a variety of procedures may be performed, such as x-rays or ultrasounds. Rehabilitated sea turtles are released home in hopes that they will become reproductive members of the sea turtle population.
Rehabilitated turtles are taken to a local beach and allowed to return to the ocean once the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources clears them for release. The average turnaround time for an injured turtle is 7–8 months. The South Carolina Aquarium has rehabilitated and released over 250 sea turtles since 2000.
Your donation will help fund medicine, materials, technology, and staff help in the Sea Turtle Rescue Center.
Thank You!
Rob, Melissa and Avery Steele
Organizer
Robert Steele
Organizer
Goose Creek, SC