Olive ridley

Olive Ridley going back to sea after the nesting. It is exhausted and carrying the sand it put on it while digging.

I work for four month on the turtle conservation program, now the nesting season is almost over. Two to three nights a week I patrol the nesting areas explaining to the public what they could do or couldn't do and trying to inform them as much as I could about the sea turtles that are nesting in French Guiana. We have three species, the Leatherback, the Green turtle and the Olive ridley wich are nesting on the Beaches of Cayenne. The main problem being the disturbance of the turtles with lights and the predation of the nests by dogs or human as well as pollution (plastic bags).
You can find more informations in French with the conservation association I work for http://www.kwata.net