As volunteers counted down the time, more than 50 people including children as young as 4 gathered at the Jumeirah Al Naseem beach to release 21 turtles into the ocean. These turtles that included 15 Hawksbill and 6 Green Turtles – both of which are considered endangered species – had been found sick or injured from various parts of the UAE and had been nursed back to health at the Jumeirah Group’s Dubai Turtle Rehabilitation Project (DTRP).