CURMA’s operations director Carlos Tamayo, 44, prepares to drive back to the hatchery as field specialist Karlo Salazar, 19, holds a bucket full of turtle eggs, in Bacnotan, La Union, Philippines, January 13, 2023. Set up in 2009, CURMA or Coastal Underwater Resource Management Actions, has turned sea turtle poachers into its allies by offering them incentives and training, allowing it to save thousands of turtles and their eggs. “We talked to the poachers, and it turns out…(poaching) was just another means for them to earn a living,” said Carlos Tamayo, 44, the operations director. “They had no choice.” REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
