CHELONIA Wildlife Rehabilitation & Release - Broome Western Australia

Chelonia Wildlife Rehabilitation & Release is located in Broome, Western Australia (Coordinates - 18 South, 122 East). Broome in turn is part of the truly spectacular wilderness area known as The Kimberley which covers an area of nearly 423,000 square kilometers (three times the area of England).

Chelonia specialises in birds and reptiles, including sea turtles, and takes in around 400 patients per year. Wildlife rehabilitator, Lesley Baird, established Chelonia in 2001 after she met her first sea turtle patient, Bip. Prior to that time she had already treated around 700 patients over a 4 year period, mainly birds and reptiles. Fortunately Bip was a success story and Lesley was hooked on sea turtles from that time. They are highly addictive creatures.

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