{"id":14377,"date":"2025-11-25T14:09:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14377"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:09:46","slug":"visitor-in-thailand-who-fed-turtle-a-plastic-wristband-sought-by-park-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14377","title":{"rendered":"Visitor in Thailand who fed turtle a plastic wristband sought by park officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/25\/ea6506d0-698d-4820-aa97-fbda837b6b15_5ca6b7ea.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Thai marine park officials are on the hunt for a visitor who was caught on camera feeding a plastic wristband to a <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">sea turtle<\/span>. If caught, the culprit could be looking at a fine and even jail time.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A tourist who had visited Mu Ko Similan National Park sent a message to the park\u2019s social media page on Saturday to report on the visitor\u2019s action, according to the Bangkok Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tourist said that while snorkelling in the park around Islands 5 and 6, the visitor was seen offering a yellow plastic wristband to a turtle and encouraging it to eat the band.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An academic and recreation team, along with the diving operations unit, were immediately dispatched to look for the animal, park chief Siriwat Suebsai told the Thai newspaper.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They found the turtle near the islands and took it to the pier for further examination. It is not known what the check-up revealed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wildlife experts say plastic items, even a single piece, are extremely dangerous to sea turtles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3334048\/visitor-thailand-who-fed-turtle-plastic-wristband-sought-park-officials?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai marine park officials are on the hunt for a visitor who was caught on camera feeding a plastic wristband to a sea turtle. If&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[10718,6697,1677,952,783,1745,6178,1624,10719],"class_list":["post-14377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-fed","tag-officials","tag-park","tag-plastic","tag-sought","tag-thailand","tag-turtle","tag-visitor","tag-wristband","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}