Tag: sea turtles
On a Tropical Beach, Conservationists and Poachers Collide
The shoreline where a green sea turtle hatches from her egg is often the same place she’ll return to nest for the first time. One such inlet is Jumba beach, which abuts the site of an old Swahili village near the bustling city of Mombasa, in southern Kenya. In the ruins of Jumba la Mtwana, crumbling homes, cisterns, and mosques offer evidence of an ancient maritime settlement that was influenced by Omani Arabs. Jumba was abandoned in the early fifteenth
12 Books to Help You Love Reading Again
Reading is hard right now. The pandemic has pushed our already scattered attention spans to a crisis point. But even before 2020, stressors such as political chaos and the allure of our phones made it harder and harder to find the time and focus to get lost in a book. Even when we’re not living through a distracting moment, we will inevitably have personal fallow periods when reading as a habit and a respite just doesn’t happen.
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