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He promptly turned the four Ninja brothers into skeleton turtles, ornately decorated with complex green stripes and color-coordinated marigolds.

The open ocean is home to whales, turtles and jellyfish.

"There's so many green sea turtles in that area, so many sting rays," he said.

From elephants in tropical forests to hawksbill turtles off the Great Barrier Reef, populations are plummeting, according to a stocktake of the world's wildlife.

But João and his fellow villagers must then carry it on their backs to their community, burning their feet on the cracked dry riverbed and occasionally passing dead river life like turtles.