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SEA LIFE Scarborough Curator Todd German Interview

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00:00 Of course, so Iona is a loggerhead sea turtle.

00:02 So they're a tropical species of turtle that are found kind of all over the world in the warm seas.

00:07 However, Iona was found on the Isle of Iona, which is just off the coast of Moore.

00:11 And unfortunately, it cold stunned.

00:13 So there's round about a dozen sea turtle strandings around the UK every year.

00:18 But Iona was quite special in the fact she was the smallest live cold stranded turtle.

00:24 So it was incredibly rare to find one that small and yet alone one that was alive.

00:28 So the residents on Iona did an amazing job.

00:31 I think it caught them very much off guard.

00:33 It's quite surreal in a way, because she's been with us for a long time.

00:37 So there's been a lot of work going on behind the scenes to get her over here.

00:40 So it was the culmination of everybody's hard work.

00:44 And it was really strange in the fact that

00:47 that was the end of my part in her journey.

00:51 And it was a really lovely feeling to see her kind of just go off into the big blue.

00:56 And I think the biggest thing I have that apprehension really of kind of

00:59 what's going to happen to her, where is she going to go now?

01:01 But I know that the part that we've all played

01:04 is giving her the best chances that we can do in the wild.

01:07 Well, sea turtles around the world are really facing challenges.

01:11 And I dread to say really that human face challenges.

01:15 So that's through climate change and also our interaction

01:18 with the natural environment and turtles themselves.

01:20 So their numbers have been diminishing over the years.

01:23 so one individual within a population is always important.