“Cold-stunned turtles rarely survive without specialist help - we didn't know if he would make it in the first week or two.”

BBC News · Aug 8 · Rare Kemp's ridley turtle Rhossi flown 5,000 miles from Wales to Gulf of Mexico

“Turtles belong in the wild, not in captivity, so it's incredibly emotional because this is what we've been working towards for more than two years.”

BBC News · Aug 8 · Rare Kemp's ridley turtle Rhossi flown 5,000 miles from Wales to Gulf of Mexico

“But we have got to know him and his individual quirks while caring for him, and we know that soon, a little piece of us is going to be swimming off into the Caribbean Sea, and we'll never see him again.”

BBC News · Aug 8 · Rare Kemp's ridley turtle Rhossi flown 5,000 miles from Wales to Gulf of Mexico