At night on Mansouri beach, the first evidence was often a track in the sand. The beach lies south of Tyre, near the border with Israel, where checkpoints, shelling, and evacuation orders have long shaped daily life. It is also one of Lebanon’s important nesting grounds for loggerhead and green sea turtles. The turtles come […]

Khalil spent more than two decades protecting the nests of endangered turtle species in southern Lebanon.

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country