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The release of 100 green turtles marks the success of China's protection of sea turtles since the establishment of its very first turtle habitat nature reserve in Huidong county, Guangdong province. Green turtles spend most of their time in the sea but come to the beach to lay eggs. But as the polluted beach expanded, agreeable areas for them to produce tend to be impossible to find, so much so that a high number of turtles stop laying eggs A green sea turtle. Although green sea turtles can stay underwater for a long time, they still need to surface and take a breath every once in a while.

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