A conservation programme in Qatar is hoping to revive the dwindling species, releasing thousands of hatchlings into the sea each year, with the help of young children.
DOHA, July 14 On a beach in north-eastern Qatar, six-year-old Lolwa waves goodbye to two baby hawksbill turtles a species that has a one in a thousand chance of surviving.
DOHA: On a beach in northeastern Qatar, six-year-old Lolwa waves goodbye to two baby hawksbill turtles a species that has a one in a thousand chance of surviving to adulthood. Predators, climate change, fishing nets and marine pollution all contributed to the classification of these narrow-beaked creatures as “critically endangered” in 1996. But a conservation program in