Newly hatched green turtle

This newly hatched green turtle on Aldabra Island, in the Seychelles, had a bleak outlook. Even if it had managed to climb out of the pit it was stuck in, it would then have had to scramble over a sand ridge and cross a wide beach before facing sharks in the shallows. But when the weary turtle was rescued from its hole and released into the sea, it seemed to perk up.
© Willem Kolvoort, Swimming for life - Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2006, owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine and sponsored by Shell, the 2007 exhibition open on 27 October.