‘It’s hugely moving’: sea turtle nests in Greece reach record numbers

Conservationists celebrate as efforts to save the Caretta caretta sea turtle, which has existed for 100m years, pay off

After nearly a quarter of a century observing one of the world's most famous sea turtle nesting grounds, Charikleia Minotou is convinced of one thing: nature, she says, has a way of sending messages".

Along the sandy shores of Sekania, on the Ionian island of Zakynthos, what she has seen both this year and last, has been beyond her wildest dreams. The beach, long described as the Mediterranean's greatest maternity ward" for the Caretta caretta loggerhead sea turtle, has become host to not only record numbers of nests, but record numbers of surviving hatchlings as the species makes an extraordinary resurgence.