Earlier this year Mervin Bick a former-warden at the Nature Seychelles run Cousin island special reserve was working on a boat travelling near the edge of the Seychelles Plateau. He spotted a hawksbill turtle that had a shiny tag on it which made him curious.
From experience Bick wondered if the same tag matched the ones that he had seen and used to tag turtles while working on Cousin monitoring turtles and sea birds.
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