Turtles Return To Shore After World's Largest Beach Cleanup
Vulnerable Turtles Return Home To Shore After World's Largest Volunteer-led Beach Cleanup By McKinley Corbley - Mar 30, 2018 It has been a little over two years since a determined lawyer took it upon himself to start cleaning a heavily polluted stretch of beach in India. His efforts have led to the coastline’s transformation from a trash-ridden landfill into a sparkling sandy sanctuary. Not only that, but it has become a hatchery for a vulnerable turtles species that has not been seen on the beach in decades. The transformation of Versova Beach, which was first initiated by Afroz Shah, has been called the world’s largest beach cleanup project by the United Nations. Though the cleanup eventually recruited thousands of volunteers, Shah was the first one to start cleaning up the shin-deep piles of trash. “For the first six to eight weeks, nobody joined,” Shah told the Guardian . “Then two men approached me and said, very politely, ‘Please s...