LIBREVILLE (GABON) - Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, newly hatched sea turtles emerged on a Gabonese beach to embark on the treacherous 10-metre scramble across the sand to the ocean.

Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, newly hatched sea turtles scramble across a 10-metre stretch of Gabonese beach to reach the waiting waves. Many don't make it. "The survival rate for ...

Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, newly hatched sea turtles emerged on a Gabonese beach to embark on the treacherous 10-metre (33-foot) scramble across the sand to the ocean. "The survival ...

"The survival rate for turtles is one in 1,000," Francois Boussamba, a Gabonese turtle expert and head of the NGO Aventures Sans Frontieres (Adventures Without Borders), told AFP, scouring for nests.

Scurrying 10 metres across the sand towards the ocean, it’s a frantic battle for survival for newly hatched sea turtles on Gabon’s coastline. And even there they are not safe. In addition to predators ...