For nesting hawksbill turtles, this Philippine community is a sanctuary

Mongabay
Mar 31, 2020, 3:00 pm275 pts
MISAMIS ORIENTAL, Philippines — For hundreds of years, the lives of fisherfolk along the sleepy coastal villages in the town of Candiis in the Philippines’ Misamis Oriental province have been intertwined with the hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). The hawksbill is one of five marine turtle…

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