![]() ![]() when we, man and mankind are completely, utterly, and indubitably responsible, my heart, in the way of a warrior, recognising the bravery of a vanquished foe, is inconsolable. I understand that accidents happen, and sometimes the survival of the fittest, and nature’s own ‘order,’ the very ‘survival of the fittest,’ cull as nature would have it. Never having been a ‘dolphin-stroking, tree-hugging conservationist,’ or an ‘environmental warrior,’ I am nevertheless given not to sadness, but a deep, visceral anger when I see turtles that have perished needlessly. ![]() That is duplicitous, only presented to excuse our own failings as individuals. The uncomfortable reality is that the plight of the Sultanate’s turtles cannot be glibly laid at the feet of a generic entity such as progress. We humans are often neglectful and pitiable in our responses to nature, in that we demonstrate a callous disregard for the most remarkable of its creatures, simply out of a lack of care or compassion, or perhaps that may be too harsh, maybe it is a lack of our application of that care and compassion. ![]() A Shakespearean entanglement if ever there was one! No matter how long you will live, once you have been drawn into the web of the triumph and tragedy that is the story of any of the varieties of the Sultanate of Oman’s turtles, you become immediately aware of the fragility of their existence. ![]()
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