Animalists denounce: “Tortured turtles in the park in Rome”

Who is killing the turtles of the Calimera park? This is the question that goes around on social networks and that came to the Earth association from some residents of Torre Angela in the VI municipality of Rome. “Over the years, many Trachemys turtles have been abandoned in the park’s pond – underlines the association -, a species whose sale and illegal detention is now prohibited but which has been freely sold for decades also at markets and fairs. animals, which were sold the size of a dime, reach a considerable size and so there have been many cases of abandonment in waterways by irresponsible people which have created a strong environmental imbalance and which has led to today’s bans. ” turtles are the symbol of the contempt and disinterest with which we treat animals “, said Valentina Coppola, president of Earth.” Buy for little money, victims of reckless abandonment and in the end the object of vent for sadistic games of some dangerous deviant “. The Earth association “asks to provide useful information to trace the perpetrators of the carnage even while remaining anonymous and has issued an app ello on social media: who knows how to speak “.