Responding to an early morning call from an activist who rehabilitates stray dogs and cats, Sunish Subramanian - Honorary Wildlife Warden and Founder of NGO Plant & Animals Welfare Society – Mumbai & Amma Care Foundation (PAWS-Mumbai ACF) helped rescue endangered turtles today.

"Early morning, I received a call from an activist Anusha Srinivasan Iyer from Four Bungalows, Andheri West who rehabilitates stray dogs and cats. She told me that she found three abandoned turtles outside her house following which PAWS-Mumbai ACF Team rescued the three turtles (2 Soft Shelled Turtle & 1 Northern River Terrapin) which are protected under Schedule 1 of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972," said Sunish Subramanian.

The turtles were abandoned outside the bungalow of activist Anusha Srinivasan Iyer in a plastic bag

It should be noted that the animal welfare activist Anusha usually finds puppies and kittens abandoned outside her house but she was shocked to see that someone had abandoned three turtles in a bag outside her bungalow.

Anusha adds, "Normally, we get puppies and kittens abandoned outside our home, Pawsitive Farm Sanctuary, sometimes with their eyes closed. Today morning, we saw a large blue plastic cover and from it, one head popped out and a pair of eyes looked at me. It was a turtle. Upon looking inside the cover, there were three turtles quite large in size. And one did not look from the same family."