Bali Green Sea Turtle.

The sea turtles which give Serangan (Bali Turtle Island) its popular name are not found swimming picture freely under ocean cliffs - here they are caught and sold as food. People in the Denpasar area are fond of turtle meat, especially on festival days. Serangan residents make a living capturing and wholesaling the creatures, also buying them from Muslim fishermen from islands to the east.

The turtles are kept live in bamboo sheds on the sandy beach around Dukuh , the island's main village on the north coast. Here they are fed with fresh leaves and sold to buyers from Denpasar, who will eventually prepare the turtle meat in dishes like sate and lawar, a kind of tartare or raw meat dish.

There is also a turtle-egg hatchery on the island. The most popular edible species is the green turtle (Chelonia mydas), which swims ashore to lay eggs in a shallow pit in the sand before returning to the sea. It is at this moment that villagers catch the turtles effortlessly and in large numbers, just by turning them on their backs. The eggs are considered a great delicacy, and are dug up immediately. Not surprisingly, the green turtle is now threatened with extinction and the World Wide Fund for Nature has consequently appealed to the government to put a stop to the slaughter.

Because of that the turtle conservation center is been establish at Bali Turtle Island so that the green turtle will not extinct at Bali Soil.  Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) or sometime they call it pacific turtle have contribute to many island that have been name as turtle island because the turtle nesting on their beaches.