Cap Verdi Our internship began early, too early, at 3 a.m. when we had to go to Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport. We had a quick stopover in London before boarding a six-hour flight to Espargos, the main town on the island of Sal in Cape Verde. A taxi took us to the flat where we met Katia, the volunteer coordinator for Project Biodiversity, the organisation where we were doing our internship. We arrived at the camp in the afternoon, and Sophie, our volunteer coordinator, showed us the camp. We met the other volunteers. On our first evening, we had our first meal with everyone before going out on our first long, very long night patrol (we hadn’t slept for almost 24 hours). The patrols start at 8 p.m. and end at 7 a.m. They are divided into two shifts, and we only do half of the patrol. They consist of walking along the beaches to check on the nesting loggerhead turtles. Turtle eggs that we moved The main objective is to maintain a permanent presence near the turtles to prevent poachers from killing them for their meat. The second objective is to collect data for Queen Mary University in London, where biologists are studying the data to better understand this species, which lives most of the time at sea in all the warm oceans around the globe. The island of Sal is one of the main nesting sites for this endangered species. The final objective is to move turtle eggs that have been laid too close to the town, where the lights disturb the hatchlings after they hatch, attracting them towards the town. The tent where we slept After the patrol, we return to camp and have breakfast. The camp is composed of a common living area and tents where we sleep in sleeping bags, with the other volunteers. Sometimes, when we patrol Serra Negra beach, we sleep directly on the beach for half the night when we are not patrolling. At lunchtime and in the evening, we eat rice with lentils. The lack of sugar is quickly felt, especially by Léonie! The lemon sharks we saw on our day off Once a week, we have a night off in a shared flat in the town of Santa Maria, a seaside town. During our internship, we have met some great people and learned about another culture, another language and, more generally, a different way of doing and thinking.