Wildlife activists are casting their net far and wide in search of two unidentified poachers who trapped a hawksbill sea turtle from Bandra Bandstand.

On Tuesday morning, a citizen on his way to work spotted the two crooks taking the turtle away in a net. He asked them to release the creature back into the sea, but they paid no heed. He immediately called Pawan Sharma, honorary wildlife warden of Thane and founder of the NGO RAWW. "We got a call on our helpline from a local informing us about the turtle. As it is a Schedule-I species, I alerted the Mangroves Cell of the forest department and forwarded pictures of the duo."