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Cayman Compass

How Cayman helped bring green sea turtles back from brink

Just after dawn, before the beaches fill with tourists, volunteers fan out across Cayman’s shoreline. Each morning, they walk mile after mile, scanning the soft sand for the distinctive tyre-track pattern left by a nesting turtle known locally as the batabano.

Every nest they find is carefully logged – data that allows experts at the Cayman Islands Department of Environment to protect the eggs and give hatchlings their best possible chance of survival.

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