Expanding nursing tank for Ho Guom Turtle

By this time, Ho Guom Turtle was basically removed from the wounds, the wounds on the apricot, the neck was up to young skin, the phenomenon of fungus was gone.

>>> TheTortoise is about to return to Sword Lake

On the afternoon of June 22, at the meeting of the Emergency Steering Committee to protect Ho Guom turtle, Dr. Bui Quang Te, Head of the treatment team of Turtle Lake said after 4 times of analyzing the specimens of the Sword Lake turtle (last together on May 30th, the results showed that the Sword Lake turtle has fully recovered.

The nursing tank will be expanded to prepare for the Ho Guom Turtle to the natural environment.

To date, Turtle Lake has endured the lake water, no longer pathogens, no wounds appear - Mr. Te added.

To prepare to bring turtle lake back to the lake in the natural environment, Mr. Nguyen Van Khoi - Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee asked related units to expand the space of nursing tank to an area of ​​30x30m 1.8 m high, instead of the old 10 x 10 meter tank, the Sword Lake turtle now lives there.

Fisheries Department of Hanoi continues to release fish as food for turtles. Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment accelerates the renovation of Ho Guom environment to ensure aquatic, temperature and micro-elements . The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Hanoi is responsible for drafting Regulation on management of Sword Lake area to submit to the City People's Committee for approval in August 2011.

On April 3, Sword Lake turtle was put into treatment tank located at the foot of Turtle Tower to treat wounds. Since then, the Turtle Lake treatment team has been on duty 24/24 at the treatment area to ensure safe monitoring, care and treatment. Along with that, Drainage Company and Urban Infrastructure Development and Investment Corporation implemented dredging mud in the lake.

Recently, the Hanoi People's Committee agreed to allow Hanoi Drainage Company to coordinate with German experts to continue dredging the Sword Lake mud by technology of the Federal Republic of Germany, to push fast progress of cleaning Sword Lake.