00:00 Arkelon Sea Turtle Rescue Center started to operate in 1994 and we received injured animals,
00:09 sea turtles specifically, from all over Greece.
00:16 It's a whole operation the moment an animal is being found sink or injured.
00:21 There are a lot of citizens being involved who are informing us.
00:26 We have the Coast Guard getting involved as well in the specific area to help with the
00:30 transportation of the animal here to Athens.
00:36 When the animal is arriving here at the rescue center, there is a long process of rehabilitation
00:41 most of the times.
00:43 It depends on the injury of the animals that they have, it depends on the condition that
00:47 the animals are into, but we're making sure that they get well as fast as possible basically
00:53 and the goal is of course to release them, to release them back into the wild, into the
00:58 sea.
01:12 The rescue center is open to the public every single day.
01:15 The entrance is for free.
01:17 Anyone who wants to see our work, to learn about sea turtles and the work that Arkelon
01:22 is doing can come and visit us.
01:24 This is very important because we can actually raise awareness, we can let people know about
01:30 the threats that sea turtles have in the wild, all the things that we can actually do, each
01:36 one of us, even very simple things on how to actually help sea turtles, but we also
01:42 encourage people to help the environment as a whole.
01:46 Every little bit of an action that is helping the sea turtles can actually help the environment
01:51 in general, which is very, very important.
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