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Dominique Guicheteau, scientific director of the 'Plaine des Maures' Nature Reserve holds up a Hermann turtle, which survived the recent forest fires at La Garde-Freinet, in the Var region of southern France on August 20, 2021. In a burned and lunar landscape, volunteers discovered some of the Hermann's turtles, a protected species, burned. But about thirty others were found safe and sound after taking refuge under rocks and were able to be watered. (Photo by Sylvain Thomas/AFP Photo)
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