On a speck of coral more than six hundred kilometers off the Australian coast, something was killing the largest gathering of sea turtles on Earth. Not sharks. Not poachers. The island itself. Every nesting season, thousands of females the size of dinner tables hauled themselves ashore and never made it back to the water. For thirty years, scientists watched, and counted the dead. Then a small team tried something that sounded almost absurd. They decided to build a fence. This is what happened.
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