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Business English: Sea turtles and a tale of survival in Lebanon

It takes more than a war to keep two women away from Mansouri beach and their true calling. Not about to abandon their posts, Mona Khalil and Habiba Sayed continued their work on Mansouri beach for two more weeks, even as the shelling around them intensified. von Ferry Biedermann

Protecting sea turtles is not for the faint of heart. That was proven again when the hostilities between Israel and Hizbollah broke out right in the middle of the nesting season. Not about to abandon their posts, Mona Khalil and Habiba Sayed continued their work on Mansouri beach for two more weeks, even as the shelling around them intensified. On their first morning back in southern Lebanon after two weeks of enforced stay as refugees in Beirut, they unerringly located several nests, which weeks ago they had covered with mesh against roving dogs and foxes, and dug out dozens of hatchlings that clawed their way to the sea and to survival. The beach south of Tyre is a nesting place for the green turtle and the loggerhead turtle. Sea turtles are the women's passion and they have been trained to look after the nests. At the north end of the beach a house in a citrus grove has been destroyed by Israeli bombs. Hizbollah used the grove for firing missiles at Israel, the women said. They were relatively lucky, they speculated, because the banana plantation surrounding their own house did not provide as much cover for the launchers as the citrus grove. The women run a guest house, painted brightly orange and called the Orange House, several hundred metres to the south of the destroyed villa. Despite the war and their enforced absence, the turtles at first seemed to be doing reasonably well, the women said. The shelling kept people away from the beach and stopped the fishermen using dynamite. But the shelling of the nearby hills drove more foxes than usual down to the beach and they seem to have been able to get at some of the nests and at the hatchlings making their way to the waves. The women were slightly apologetic for their interest in the turtles "while so many people in the area suffered so much." But they were determined to carry on. The Orange House was open for business, they said.

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