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  • Sea turtle returns to its nesting place – it’s now an airport!

    Sea turtle returns to its nesting place – it’s now an airport!

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    by Philippine Daily Inquirer – Asia News Network Green sea turtles are among just a select few animals that take a long journey back to their birth place to lay the next generation of eggs. But what happens when their birth beach is no longer a nesting place but something else instead? In the Maldives, a female sea turtle’s homecoming was now an airport! Not too suitable for the laying of delicate turtle eggs. Without a choice, with nature instructing her to lay the eggs on the same spot she’d emerged as a baby turtle, the poor reptile made the runway its nest on Maafaru island.

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