https://www.scmp.com/rss/505336/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com During the eerie calm that settles just after midnight we spot her. A large, dark shape, flecked white by moonlight, lugs itself from the waves, leaving a wake of two-metre-wide tractor-like tracks. She is fully lit fleetingly by the routine swirl of KwaZulu-Natal’s Sodwana Bay lighthouse: a leatherback turtle, the second-largest reptile species in the world. To find her, it took two hours of scouting the nocturnal shoreline with guide Pete Jacobs, of Ufudu Turtle Tours, in a safari-style 4x4.... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3077039/return-south-africas-sea-turtles-conservation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3077039/return-south-africas-sea-turtles-conservation?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 31 Mar 2020 06:30:12 +0000