1Last year, I joined a conservation project protecting sea turtles on a remote island.
2Every night, we walked along the beach looking for mothers coming ashore to lay eggs.
3When we found a nest, we marked it carefully and recorded its position on our maps.
4The work was exhausting because we slept during the day and patrolled all night.
5One morning, I watched a hundred tiny turtles race towards the waves at sunrise.
6Sadly, many of them were eaten by birds before they reached the safety of the sea.
7The project leader explained that only one in a thousand turtles survives to adulthood.
8Local fishermen once hunted the turtles, but now they help to protect them instead.
9Tourism has changed their village, giving them a new reason to keep the beaches clean.
10When I left, I promised myself to tell everyone about these extraordinary creatures.
11Protecting wildlife is not just a job for scientists, but a duty for all of us.