animals, like turtle and tortoise, who emerged from africa 260 million years ago. they need to remain in africa, africa needs to be their paradise. 0n the outskirts of dakar, in the back yard of his dad s old farm, tomas has built this village of the tortoises. it s popular with tourists and school groups, but it s also a hospitalfor sick and injured turtles. you see the remains of the place where they dig or they draw a hole in order to put a rope to attach the turtle. wait, why was a rope attached to the turtle? yeah, because when you have them in captivity and you don t want them to dig in the middle of your lawn. oh, no! ..you want to have like a rope in order to control the animals. but now, tomas is taking me to see the head honcho here. this is bill. so does bill know you? no. would you say that he.?
why the tagging, i mean, why is it done? with that, we can track the migratory pattern for the animals. when we know that, we are going to be more accurate in the strategy we need to implement in order to save this species. because the more you know about the species, the more you are going to be able to save them. ifeel like i need to hold my breath. 0h, breathe in! does that hurt or is thatjust like getting your ears pierced? yeah, it s going to hurt, but it s going to. save your life at the same time? yeah. tomas is about to celebrate 30 years of working with turtles in senegal. his work has brought him awards and recognitions from around the world. he s so gentle with it. i mean, you can see that these turtles actually are his babies. that s quite an impressive sight. i ve never seen it, and i m sure all of these people haven t either. everyone literallyjust ran down
able to save them. ifeel like i need to hold my breath. 0h, breathe in! does that hurt or is thatjust like getting your ears pierced? yeah, it s going to hurt, but it s going to. save your life at the same time? yeah. tomas is about to celebrate 30 years of working with turtles in senegal. his work has brought him awards and recognitions from around the world. he s so gentle with it. i mean, you can see that these turtles actually are his babies. that s quite an impressive sight. i ve never seen it, and i m sure all of these people haven t either. everyone literallyjust ran down to the beach to see this release. tomas started as a teenager rescuing african spurred tortoises the second biggest species in the world. since then, his work in northern senegal has saved
260 million years ago. they need to remain in africa. africa needs to be their paradise. 0n the outskirts of dakar, in the back yard of his dad s old farm, tomas has built this village of the tortoises. it s popular with tourists and school groups, but it s also a hospitalfor sick and injured turtles. you see the remains of the place where they dig or they draw a hole in order to put a rope to attach the turtle. wait, why was a rope attached to the turtle? yeah, because when you have them in captivity and you don t want them to dig in the middle of your lawn. oh, no! ..you want to have like a rope in order to control the animals. but now, tomas is taking me to see the head honcho here. this is bill. so does bill know you?
ifeel like i need to hold my breath. 0h, breathe in! does that hurt or is thatjust like getting your ears pierced? yeah, it s going to hurt, but it s going to. save your life at the same time? yeah. tomas is about to celebrate 30 years of working with turtles in senegal. his work has brought him awards and recognitions from around the world. he s so gentle with it. i mean, you can see that these turtles actually are his babies. that s quite an impressive sight. i ve never seen it, and i m sure all of these people haven t either. everyone should just run down to the beach and see this release. tomas started as a teenager rescuing african spurred tortoises the second biggest species in the world. since then, his work in northern senegal has saved the last remaining colony of adanson s terrapin from collapse.