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Qatari children help give endangered turtles a head start

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 contributed to the classification of these narrow-beaked creatures as “critically endangered” in 1996.
However, a conservation program in Qatar is hoping to revive the dwindling species, releasing thousands of hatchlings into the sea each year, now with the help of young children.
“As adults we are kind of beyond hope, but children have the power to really internalize all these things that they are learning . and they ....

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