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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly sequence through which NPR’s worldwide crew shares moments from their lives and work around the globe.
India has some fairly profitable efforts to guard the olive ridley sea turtle, a susceptible species which nests on the nation’s lengthy coastlines. Each nesting season, 1000’s of females dig holes on the seashore with their flippers, and every one lays dozens of eggs inside. To maintain them secure from threats like canines and poachers, activists gather the eggs and incubate them in protected hatcheries.
After they hatch, activists gather them in tubs — like these little guys I photographed in April alongside the coast south of Mumbai — after which the child turtles are tipped out onto the sand, to allow them to crawl into the Arabian Sea.
Tiny, gradual and clumsy — these hatchlings are a straightforward snack for predators. However for this one second, as they crawl into the waves, they’re protected by conservationists, who shoo away marauding crabs, seagulls and canines. Typically, vacationers might watch at a distance. And fairly shortly, the vacationers begin cheering on the hatchlings to get into the ocean. The vacationers clap after they’re lastly in. It is like a victory for the little man, and each time I give it some thought, it makes me smile.
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