Protecting leatherback turtles - Blue Planet II: Episode 7 Preview - BBC One

this magnificent creature preparing whoops preparing to lay her eggs is the largest of all turtles and leatherback they can grow up to half a ton in weight and they have an ancestry that goes back a hundred million years to the age of the dinosaur but in recent times their numbers have fallen catastrophic ly here however in the Caribbean there is hope leatherback turtles leave the sea in order to lay their eggs in the dry sand but out of water these huge creatures are easy targets for hunters in a small fishing village in Trinidad Len Peters has experienced this firsthand I grew up in a household where the presence of turtle metres normal fridge is always full of it everybody everybody harvested settles including my parents it's only when I became exposed to things that would be published about leather baths on the verge of extinction and nobody cares that piqued my interest then took the leatherbacks future into his own hands he began patrolling the beach at night to protect the turtles a brave thing to do we were met with tremendous resistance people would Pelt us at night I have had persons um insult me my hot person curse me I that person physically tried to wrestle me with a machete so there's really a hostile time back then the flame was going to save these Turtles he needed to win over the whole community we had to find a way to get the villagers to benefit from the presence of these animals he began to encourage tourists to visit the beach and train some villagers to be their guides to help secure the turtles future he took the message to the next generation now once what's the largest size of leatherback and go to Shani that's correct Letta Baskins rule - mm bah that's a big lens hard work paid off and now attitudes have changed it took us a while to reach out to the villagers but randomly we got them involved as well because of the poachers who will be hunting the animals to be part of the conservation program

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Length: 3min 15sec (195 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 08 2017