The photographer, Ellyas Pereira, stated on Facebook that he and his mother were walking along Grande Rivere beach in Trinidad when they came across the enormous beast lost in a body of water created by the storm.

A mini-lake had formed at the mouth of the river, limiting access to the beach. She said the female leatherback had just laid her eggs and she had completely turned around.

Pereira, a 17-year-old aspiring marine biologist, led the turtle back to the sea.

In an email to the Huffington publication, she said: “It felt incredible to know that I had given something back to the ocean that had filled me with so much admiration and awe. .”

Later that day, he met with a turtle ecologist, who told him that if he hadn’t saved the leatherback turtle, it would have died in the river.

The turtle is revered by cultures around the world for its cultural importance. Because he is one of its five main creators, the serious people of Sonora, Mexico, consider the leatherback turtle to be culturally significant.

When a turtle is captured and returned to the wild, ordinary people hold celebrations and festivals in its honor. Serious people have seen a significant decline in turtle populations over time and have launched a conservation initiative to help. Grupo tortuguero comас is a group made up of teenagers and elders of the tribe. To help control turtle numbers and safeguard the turtles’ natural environment, they employ both traditional ecological knowledge and Western technology.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species classifies the species as Vulnerable. Leatherback sea turtles, according to National Geographic, are the largest sea turtles in the world, reaching up to 7 feet long and weighing 2,000 pounds. They are at risk of extinction.

Guiding her out of the river

trying to guide her out of the river and back into the ocean.

See her return to the sea