00:00From Zamboanga City, our team will travel to the island of Sulu.
00:21Our mission is to witness a strange time in the life of a fisherman.
00:27Their dream.
00:49The place we will visit is known as Turtle Island.
00:58This island is not yet a common nesting site for turtles.
01:04Most of the time, they lay their eggs in the sand.
01:11This is what they call the Turtle Sanctuary of Sulu.
01:17And this is where they lay their eggs.
01:20Up to the end, this is where the turtles lay their eggs.
01:23Before we witness the nesting season, we waited for the night to come.
01:53There's one.
01:55Where?
01:59The eggs are laying.
02:02So we're going to patrol the shoreline.
02:13There.
02:15It's big.
02:18It went through there.
02:20It went through there.
02:22So we're going to dim our lights.
02:24Dim our lights.
02:54It's clear to this green sea turtle that it's going to have a difficult journey.
03:24It's difficult.
03:30But it doesn't stop.
03:43When the sand arrives, it can't lay its eggs yet.
03:46Because it needs to clean up the roots and dry leaves.
04:01Until it starts to lay its eggs.
04:08Finally, it's able to lay its eggs.
04:38For now, it's going to leave its eggs.
04:46It's so big.
04:49It's bigger than my palm.
04:52Okay, bye-bye.
04:56With the hope that they'll be able to cross safely and return to the sea when the time is right.
05:08The night is still long.
05:11There's still a lot that can happen.
05:16A mother turtle stole our attention.
05:22We were hoping that it would return to the sea.
05:25But it was trapped in the rocks.
05:29Look at the struggle.
05:31The struggle that it takes to return to the sea.
05:35Look at the struggle.
05:37The struggle that it takes to get out of the shore.
05:42Because this shore is rocky.
05:49We needed to help it.
05:54I didn't expect the next thing to happen.
05:58Where did this come from?
06:00Do you have one too?
06:06It looks like it came from a shark.
06:10The body of the shark is covered in oil.
06:14According to our colleagues, it's possible that the oil came from machines that were thrown into the sea.
06:24Look at that.
06:26That's oil.
06:27It's a pity that we don't know what the effect is.
06:31Because in the shell, they sometimes breathe.
06:34But if it's sealed with oil, it affects them.
06:39We let it return to the sea.
06:42Especially that it's just a baby.
06:58Thank you for watching Born to be Wild.
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