A turtle hatchery near a tourist beach on Sal, Cabo Verde. Tourists follow the work of scientists and volunteers in a turtle hatchery near their hotel. Members of the „Projeto Biodiversidade“ during their nightly work on a Turtle Beach collecting datas from arriving leatherback-turtels. A volunteer sits on a beach at night to protect incoming turtles from poachers. Just hatched turtles are collected by volunteers to be later released into the ocean. A just hatched turtle looks confidently into its new environment. Tourists look curiously into a bucket of turtles that have just hatched. A bucket of just hatched turtles. A newly hatched turtle on its way into the sea. Two volunteers look after some just hatched turtles that have been released and hope for their survival.