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Last Updated: Saturday June 20 2009 08:40 GMT

Sailors give baby turtles a helping hand

Some of the baby turtles feeding

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A group of sailors are helping baby turtles take their first difficult journey into the sea in Thailand.

Baby green sea turtles are under threat in Thailand by thieves who steal their eggs from the country's sandy beaches.

So the Navy are helping them out by moving the eggs to a safer part of the beach where they can be monitored until they're old enough to be released into the sea. Ore's got the story...

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