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A group called Local Ocean Conservation is working to save turtles off the east coast of Africa. When turtles are caught in nets they want fishermen to save them. They take in injured turtles and try to save them. Many turtles are ill because they have ingested so much plastic. Sometimes they can be saved and sometimes not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/scien...shing.html

It is shocking to read that only one in a thousand turtles eggs makes it to adulthood. 
Protecting nests, freeing turtles from nets and treating ill turtles is just a start at trying to save species that have been on this planet since before the dinosaurs. Turtle numbers have dropped alarmingly because of the impact of humans and the damage we have done to the planet. Right now even one turtle saved is important to its whole species. I just hope it is enough.