AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: A baby turtle tries to roll over in the sand to get to the ocean on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: Dora Martínez, 47, Salvadoran woman nurseryman she holds a hatchling sea turtle as she hatches into a nest on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: Baby turtles are kept in a container of water before being released into the ocean on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: Dora Martínez, 47, a Salvadoran woman nurseryman, keeps eggs in a nest in the sand with her son on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: Marcela Linares, 29, Salvadoran woman volunteer checks hatchling sea turtles after emerging from a nest in the sand on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SAL5ADOR - OCTOBER 15: Flor Puquir, 45, Salvadoran woman nurseryman helps an Olive Ridley sea turtle protect her eggs in a nest in the sand on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: Baby turtles of the Olive Ridley species walk on the sand looking for the waters of the Pacific Ocean during a sunset on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: A Salvadoran girl holds a baby Olive Ridley turtle before being released into the waters of the Pacific Ocean on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: A Salvadoran woman with her daughters releases baby turtles of the Olive Ridley species from the sand into the waters of the Pacific Ocean during a sunset on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: A Salvadoran girl and her mother release baby turtles of the Olive Ridley species on the sand into the waters of the Pacific Ocean during a sunset on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )

AHUACHAPAN, EL SALVADOR - OCTOBER 15: Flor Puquir, 45, Salvadoran woman nurseryman marks an Olive Ridley sea turtle after laying her eggs in a nest in the sand on the beach of Barra de Santiago, in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, on October 15, 2022. For more than 45 years, women from the beach of La Barra de Santiago have helped conserve sea turtles, making this coastal area with more hatchlings of released turtles per year, and helping to reduce the sale of eggs on the black market. Every day they involve people from the community, turtle farmers, boatmen and women from the Association of Women of the Barra de Santiago (AMBAS), who are dedicated to caring for sea turtle hatcheries, and report more than 80,000 protected eggs each year. ( Alex Pena - Anadolu Agency )