Prin-ce of turtles: Prin placing leatherback hatchlings into a box before releasing them into the sea at Bang Khwan Beach, Phang Nga. — AFP
IT is past midnight 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.
