Ocean Sentry
(From in.reuters.com) Lara Bay, Cyprus- Before Cypriots Andreas Demetropoulos and Myroula Hadjichristophorou pioneered turtle conservation in the Mediterranean in 1978, populations of the green turtles had collapsed, hunted to the brink of extinction. Still working the Cypriot beaches thirty years on, they can take credit for boosting the on-land survival rate by over 400 percent, overseeing about 20,000 hatchlings reaching the sea every year. For the 2008 season estimates indicate there may be as many as 40,000.
(By Michelle Kambas)
