Indonesia: how to save turtles (9 photos)

Meru-Betiri was created in 1982 to rescue the surviving at this time only in those places Javanese tiger. This attempt, apparently, was delayed: the last confirmed sighting of the rare animal (in a single copy!) Refers to 1988.
But here's the reserve actually succeed, because it is in the preservation of sea turtles livestock.
Apparently, this is due to its remoteness and the difficulties the way: not every tourist will reach even up to the middle:-)
In any case, here are the wild beach, which is about the fight taking the run as much from Africa waves ...

... An ideal place where turtles come every night to postpone eggs on the shore.
Here the trail of one of them:



Despite the weather, we were lucky: one of them is still out on the beach that night that we were there. Huntsman in such cases no one admit to a turtle as long as it does not lay eggs, and then first inspect it yourself:



And only then - when a woman in labor slowly and with difficulty sent to the mother ocean - it can take pictures in plenty. On land tortoise moves slowly and with difficulty ...



... But once in his element, turns into a fast-moving torpedo. That's just shoot it at night without the spotlight is almost impossible.
After that rangers collect the eggs left on the bank to not ruined masonry predators, and refers to the incubator:



Hatched turtles ...



... Some time kept in brought to shore ocean water, ...



... And then released into the wild.



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