Ann Wroe
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865 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It had swum probably hundreds of miles to that very place, which was the place where it had hatched.
And that was where the green sea turtles had to return to in order to have their own young and start the cycle over again.
But all Menachalil could think of as she watched it then was how beautiful it was.
And at that moment, her life changed to become absolutely devoted to turtles.
Her life before, she didn't speak very much about, but she had been born in Nigeria, in fact, had gone to Beirut to be schooled, and then had gone to the Netherlands during the Lebanese Civil War.
So she'd been 10 years out of the country, and there'd been quite an emotional return
In 1999, to the beach she loved, only to find that the house had been neglected for 15 years.
It was in a very bad state of repair.
So she and a friend, Habiba Fayyad, decided to take it in hand, restore it.
And as soon as she became interested in turtles, they turned it into a B&B, which was also a centre for training, educating and spreading the word to all the volunteers they could entice to go there, that it was vital to protect this turtle nesting site on Mansuri Beach.
It was all the more important because it was a very difficult environment for turtles as it stood.
First of all, there were all the natural hazards for the tiny little hatchlings that came out of the turtle legs.
They were only the size of a palm.
And once you let them free, they were vulnerable to almost everything, to dogs and foxes, to the waves, even to a footprint.
They would get trapped in those.
They were vulnerable to fishermen who used dynamite near the shore and put down poison.
And most difficult of all, they faced all the development that was going on along the Lebanese coast.
The hotels, the blocks of flats, the resorts.
So Mona Khalil had to campaign against all these difficulties that the hatchlings faced.
First of all, she rather took charge of setting them in motion in the beginning.
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