Page 6 . 23 August - 29 August '09 KIDDIES SECTION
When the city was celebrating Independence Day some young volunteers of PAWS-Mumbai were busy recuing a turtle from the clutches of a slum in Bhandup. The kids were playing with the strayed wild helpless animal.A unanimous person called on the animal helpline saying some children were bullying a turtle in the open. By then they had damaged one of its eye. They had tied a string to the head of the turtle and were dragging it on the street. Dragging it on the road made mud and small stones enter the eye of the turtle, thus causing injury to the hapless animal.
“The red-eared turtle is an exotic species not generally found in India. It is however not protected by law in India. It was rescued and the matter informed to the Range Forest Officer. It is under treatment and care of PAWS-Mumbai as of now,” said Nisha Kunju of PAWS-Mumbai.
