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Thousands of new-born Taricaya turtles are released into Peru's Amazon as part of a conservation program to save the at-risk species. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
Datem del Marañón (Peru), Sep 14 (EFE) (Camera: Carla Samon) .- When her husband sentenced her to singleness for not being able to have children, Balbina Sundi Akumbari, from the Kandozi people, found her best ally in the Taricaya turtles to assert herself and help other women like her who resist the scourge of machismo so deeply rooted in the remote community where she lives, deep in the Peruvian Amazon.FOOTAGE OF THE SITUATION OF NATIVE WOMEN IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON
Some 17,000 baby Taricaya turtles are released into Peru's Amazon in a bid to save the species from extinction.
A Peruvian NGO returns nine young sea lions back into the ocean after their mothers were killed by local fishermen. Gavino Garay reports.
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