{"id":31742,"date":"2025-10-31T11:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=31742"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:28:45","slug":"after-the-floods-saving-spains-turtles-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=31742","title":{"rendered":"After the Floods: Saving Spain\u2019s Turtles | Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Carla leads a fight in flood-damaged Valencia where climate change and tourism threaten turtles along Spain&#8217;s coastline.<\/p>\n<p>Carla grew up witnessing her father\u2019s fight to protect Valencia\u2019s fragile beach ecosystems. Now, as climate change warms the Mediterranean, sea turtles \u2013 driven by rising sea temperatures \u2013 have begun arriving to lay their eggs on her city\u2019s shoreline. But the beaches they rely on are under threat. Mass tourism, unchecked development, and the recent floods are eroding these vital habitats.<\/p>\n<p>At 27, Carla is an environmental lawyer and conservationist who works with her father to restore the beaches and protect turtle nests, knowing the species\u2019 survival depends on their efforts. After the catastrophic 2024 floods, Carla rallies her community to act fast to restore Valencia\u2019s coastline. With turtle nesting coinciding with peak tourism, Carla urgently needs volunteers to protect each nest \u2013 and time is running out.<\/p>\n<p>After the Floods is a documentary film by Adriana Cardoso and Rodrigo Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 31 Oct 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">31 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carla leads a fight in flood-damaged Valencia where climate change and tourism threaten turtles along Spain&#8217;s coastline. Carla grew up witnessing her father\u2019s fight to protect Valencia\u2019s fragile beach ecosystems. Now, as climate change warms the Mediterranean, sea turtles \u2013 driven by rising sea temperatures \u2013 have begun arriving to lay their eggs on her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1929,2968,3818,3195,5231],"class_list":{"0":"post-31742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-documentary","9":"tag-floods","10":"tag-saving","11":"tag-spains","12":"tag-turtles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}