Turtle eggs being gathered for captive hatching at Madras Crocodile Bank, in Chennai

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Eggs are being taken away from a threatened habitat so that the turtles can be hatched in a safe hatchery and then returned, to undertake their migration. These eggs are being collected for hatching in a controlled environment, and to make sure that no one dig them out. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions acro