Volunteers conserve vulnerable sea turtles in remote Panama
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September 26, 2019
JAQUE, Panama (AP) — Iver Valencia goes out at dusk each evening during nesting season with a group of lantern-wielding villagers to walk a stretch of Panamanian beach. Their mission: to find nests where olive ridley sea turtles lay their eggs and take them to a hatchery safe from predators.
On a recent night, Valencia and the others in the remote province of Darien in southeast Panama found five nests with dozens of eggs.
Valencia, 57, who arrived here as an adolescent from a town bordering Colombia, has been doing this for 18 years in the face of threats from poachers. The task has been furt...
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