Endangered sea turtle from Malaysia lays eggs on Vietnam island

Rangers found an olive ridley sea turtle with a Malaysian tag laying eggs on Con Dao Archipelago off the coast of Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province in southern Vietnam from Monday night to the early hours of Tuesday.

The turtle came ashore on Bay Canh, an island of Con Dao Archipelago, to lay 108 eggs.

It wore a stainless-steel trace tag showing that it migrated from Malaysia.

The turtle’s shell is 97 centimeters long and 84 centimeters wide. The animal weighs some 90 kilograms.

The management board of the Con Dao National Park reported that in 2018, an olive ridley sea turtle with an Indonesian tag also landed at Con Dao to lay eggs.

Olive ridley sea turtles are classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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