Each year Christian Ndombe and other park rangers scour the beaches of Democratic Republic of Congo's vanishing coastline for turtle nests, bringing the eggs to a hatching centre where they are incubated for eight weeks. Rising sea levels and erosion have consumed almost a quarter of the turtle's nesting grounds, the rangers estimate. Now a new concern is emerging in the form of a port, which the government says will bring jobs and lower the cost of imports, but that rangers worry will further endanger them. Turtles released after eight weeks from nests of a hatching centre, are seen on the endangered coastline in Muanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 5, 2022. REUTERS/Justin Makangar "The problem we have at the moment is that to really protect them, we need to protect...
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