| Yaeyama Underwater Park Research
Institute was established for the operation management of 1973 underwater
park zones. Although five kinds of sea turtle are looked in the
sea near Japan, three kinds of them lay eggs in Yaeyama Islands.
Because this is an also globally rare area, it receives commission
from Okinawa Prefecture and Taketomi town, and is doing investigation
and research of a sea turtle and coral. The data of the coral, a
shell, and a sea turtle are exhibited in the exhibition room of
this research institute, and there is also a stuffed animal of a
sea turtle. |
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