Alphonse Atoll is a hotspot for both Green Turtles and Hawksbill Turtles to nest. The activities team will explain the life cycle of these beautiful and unique animals from hatching to laying their own eggs - back on the same beach that they hatched from themselves. Both the Green Turtle and the Hawksbill Turtle have been legally protected in Seychelles waters since 1994. Join our Island Conservation Team on their daily routine of looking for and measuring turtle tracks, identifying and marking new nests, tagging nesting turtles if found in the process, discovering hatched nests and occasionally guiding hatchlings to the ocean. Hawksbill Turtles usually nest in the daytime (mainly from September to March), while the Green Turtles tend to do so at night (usually from January to September). Eggs take around two months to hatch. A turtle will lay between 150 to 200 eggs in each nest, and will nest 4 - 5 times per nesting season.