Diaa Hadid, Jackie Lay / NPR
Far postcards are a weekly series in which the international NPR team shares moments in their lives and works in the world.
India has quite successful efforts to protect the Olive Ridley sea turtle, a vulnerable species that nests on the long ribs of the country. Each nesting season, thousands of women dig holes on the seaside with their fins, and each placed dozens of eggs inside. To protect them from threats like dogs and poachers, activists collect eggs and incubate them in protected hatching.
After having hatched, the activists collect them in baths – like these little guys that I photographed in April along the coast south of Mumbai – then the baby turtles are turtled on the sand, so that they can crawl in the Oman Sea.
Tiny, slow and clumsy – These newborns are an easy snack for predators. But for this moment, while they are crawling in the waves, they are protected by environmentalists, who distance marauding crabs, seagulls and dogs. Sometimes tourists can look at a distance. And fairly quickly, tourists start to applaud the newborns to enter the sea. Tourists applaud when they finally entered. It’s like a victory for the little guy, and every time I think about it, it makes me smile.
See more photos from around the world:
- Greetings of the Negev desert, where traces remain an old -fashioned civilization
- Greetings of Dubai airport, where a long stopover can also be a destination
- Greetings of Paris, where you can swim in the Seine for the first time in a century
- Greetings of Gujarat, in India, where a Banian is a place to rest, prayers and play
- Greetings of Khartoum, Sudan, where those who have the least offer the most to their guests
- Greetings of Moscow, Russia, where the tomb of Lenin attracts a new wave of visitors
- Greetings of New Delhi, India, where the monkeys which are the pleasure – and the ambivalence
- Greetings of Damascus, Syria, where a crowded bar welcomed revelers after the Assad
- Greetings by Alishan, Taiwan, whose red cypress forests offer timeless beauty
- Greetings of Odesa, Ukraine, where a black sea beach offers a respite from the war
- Greetings of Shenyang, in China, where workers sort the data of the AI in a “lord” way
- Greetings of Palmyra, in Syria, with its formerly large hotel named for a warlike queen
- Greetings of Mexico City, where these dogs set up a bus to and from school
- Greetings of the Galápagos Islands, where the Booby with blue feet shows its colors
- Greetings of Afrin, Syria, where the Kurds danced their hearts to celebrate spring
- Greetings of Dharamshala, India, where these Tibetan children had the best time
