A female turtle lumbers across the beach in Pakistan's bustling port city of Karachi late at night, looking for a place to lay her eggs.
Waiting for her, staff from Sindh Wildlife watch quietly as the green turtle buries a hundred or more eggs in the sand before heading back out into the Arabian Sea.
Among the largest sea turtles and the only herbivores, adult green turtles can weigh more than 90 kg . The weather in Karachi can be conducive to egg-laying as late as January, and wildlife officials will keep up their vigil until then. As soon as the mother turtle leaves, staff hurry to dig out the eggs and move them to a three-foot deep pit in a hatchery until the babies hatch, 40-45 days later. The hatchlings are taken to the beach immediately and released into the sea.
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