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Life-saving work of the turtle squad

By Pan Mengqi | China Daily | Updated: 2019-04-28 07:45

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On a tranquil beach along the Gulf of Guinea, hundreds of thousands of white oval eggs are about to hatch into sea turtles and crawl into the Atlantic Ocean.

Every dry season in West Africa, from October until March, mother sea turtles lay their eggs on the beach of Tema in southeastern Ghana. It is a 150 million-year tradition, the creature dating back to the late Jurassic era.

Life-saving work of the turtle squad

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