Something a little different - Baby Turtles :)

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North Cyprus is one of the most famous places in the world for green and loggerhead turtle conservation. At Turtle Beach (Alagadi), they work from June to Sept as volunteers to aid turtle conservation and record activity. As part of this, the public are allowed controlled access to both nest excavation and also releases of the babies. THe excavations occur 2 days after a nest should have hatched. The volunteers look for the tracks of the baby turtles going into the sea, and then 2 days later, excavate the nest to make sure none got left behind. The weaker babies sometimes cannot make it out of the nest, so this way, they're given as much chance of survival as possible. The babies that are rescued from the nest, are released that night into the sea (the turtles use moon light to find their way into the sea).

These close ups are of babies that were excavated. If they hadn't been, they would most likely have died in the nest. The green turtle nest here, can have eggs laid as deep as 1 metre below the surface! From this nest, over 100 babies had already gone and made it into the sea, another 10 were found in the nest alive to be released that night.

More infomation can be found here - https://www.cyprusturtles.org/index.php

These are some photos from our day at the excavation. The full album can be seen here - https://www.flickr.com/gp/andythilo/s4rq95


DSC_3474 by AndyThilo, on Flickr


DSC_3467 by AndyThilo, on Flickr


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DSC_3519 by AndyThilo, on Flickr
 
Thanks Chris. The nose focus did annoy me, but at least the eye was sharp lol. It was all so quick, I barely had time to snap shots. Hopefully go back again next year for more photos.
 
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