Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has praised ocean conservation groups in Watamu area of Kilifi County for saving over 20,000 turtles through their conservation efforts. Balala was speaking at the Bio Ken Snake Farm in Watamu after releasing a recovered green turtle into the sea to mark the 2020 World Turtle Day on Tuesday 16th June 2020.

He pledged his Ministry’s support for the conservation groups with a view to protecting wildlife in the fragile marine ecosystem, especially the turtles, which he noted were considered endangered according to Appendix One of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of World Fauna and Flora.

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