Hatching leatherback turtles get helping hand on Thai beach


Prin "Por" Uthaisangchai, 12, is making a documentary on leatherback sea turtles as part of the ESF programme.- AFP

PHANG NGA, Thailand, March 4, 2023 (AFP): It is past midnight on a beach in southern Thailand and 12-year-old Prin Uthaisangchai is anxiously staring at a leatherback turtle nest, waiting for scores of the endangered hatchlings to scrabble out from the sand.

The Bangkok secondary school pupil is producing a short documentary about the snappers, under a programme run by the Environmental and Social Foundation, an NGO working to educate children about conservation.

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