WOW 😱 AMAZING NEWS :Turtles named after Bath Rugby players as a Christmas present from a fan.

Turtles named after Bath Rugby players as a Christmas present from a fan.

Fan Scott Eanes founded The Hawksbill Project, a British charity that helps protect turtle species. Credit: Fiero PR The Bath Rugby fan, who is also a sea turtle biologist, gave the first team players sea turtles named after them this Christmas.

Scott Eanes handed out token gifts to the first XV on Saturday 23rd December as they walked off the field victorious against Harlequins.

Scott founded the British charity The Hawksbill Project in 2022 to support and contribute to the conservation of Hawksbill turtles.

During two conservation trips in 2023, he had the idea to name the turtles after the players of his favorite team. Caribbean hawksbill turtles are the most exploited turtle species in history.

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He said: “I love Bath Rugby and I love hawksbill turtles, so why not combine the two? “I thought it would be good for them to know that they are lending their name cornerstone conservation of species.

Right now almost all the talk about the environment is bad news, it’s too hot, it’s melting, it’s bleaching, it’s flooding… we need positivity.

That’s the positivity!” Scott moved from the US Virgin Islands to England in 2017 after making his home in St.

Thomasis has been hit by two catastrophic Category 5 hurricanes, but continues to dedicate his life to sea turtles.

In June and July, he made several return trips and named a total of 17 hawksbill turtles after Bath Rugby players in the US Virgin Islands from St. John and Carriacou, Grenada, W.I. Credit: Scott Eanes Scott took pictures of the creatures, customized them with the Hawksbill Project logo, added the turtles’ biometrics, and then gave them to the players they were named after.

Scott added: andquot;This beautiful and ecologically important species needs our help.

“This work is extremely important and we try to do as much as we can to address areas of lack of knowledge, and the real satisfaction comes from people seeing the turtles we document.

Twodays after we St. As we left John, a lovely underwater photographer spotted Ben Obano the turtle in Trunk Bay. Three weeks after that, Dr.CarolineRogers photographed Tom Dunn the turtle in a bay on the south side of the island.

Thisshows that these are living turtles and that is very valuable information.”