1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites

Saving Greece's turtles

Thomas Bormann (ARD) / Samantha EarlyDecember 15, 2016

Sea turtles have a hard fight for survival, migrating thousands of miles and trying to keep out of the way of boat traffic, fishermen and plastic waste. Some don't make it. Others are lucky - if, for instance, they're injured off the coast of Greece and rescued by dedicated volunteers working for Archelon and the turtle sanctuary at Glyfada. Samantha Early presented this report by Thomas Bormann.

https://p.dw.com/p/2UJlL
Tom, a British volunteer of the NGO "Archelon", cools off a newborn caretta-caretta sea turtle
Image: picture-alliance/dpa/O. Panagiotou