“Our sea, our beaches, our Blue Flag coastline, once again become the ideal nesting place for Caretta Caretta turtles”. The announcement is from the mayor of Modica Maria Monisteri, which specifies how WWF volunteers discovered the first sea turtle nest of this 2024 on the beach of Marina di Modica. “It is confirmation of the perfect synchrony of our ecosystem in an environment that becomes the ideal place chosen by the sea turtle to nest. During the monitoring of our beaches carried out by WWF volunteers during the egg-laying period of sea turtles -from May to September- turtle tracks and the egg-laying ‘chamber’ were identified a couple of days ago, thus confirming the nesting process”.
Samuele Cannizzaro, Councilor for the Protection and Defense of Animals: “This moment confirms the choice made by the European Union’s ‘Life Turtlenest’ project to make Modica a ‘turtle-friendly municipality’. I thank the work of WWF volunteer Piero Lancetta and biologist Oriana Prato -responsible for the WWF Sicily Turtle Project- that are spent protecting nesting sites and I thank our Civil Protection for the precious and constant contribution it carries out to protect our environment in addition to the daily safety tasks it performs. In this circumstance, WWF experts decided to move the eggs to a protected position, away from the risk of storm surges. The monitoring of our coasts continues and the invitation is to anyone who can see traces of the presence of possible nests, to contact the WWF operators, the only organization authorized by the Ministry of the Environment for the care of Caretta Caretta nests in Italy”.
