Qualla: Poilão https://qualla.com/poilao en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Poilão https://qualla.com/poilao Poilão: Introduction https://qualla.com/poilao/ On a forty-three-hectare scrap of forest at the bottom of Guinea-Bissau, the sand moves at night. It moves because tens of thousands of green sea turtles haul themselves ashore to dig, lay, and return to the sea - so many that their nests overlap, one female unknowingly excavating another's eggs. Poilão is barely a speck on the map, uninhabited and ringed by a single lighthouse. Yet on this small beach, roughly five percent of the entire global green-turtle population comes to begin the next generation. It is the most important green-turtle nesting site in all of Africa.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/u/v/poilao-wp/e9uv-poil-o-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Poilão: The Edge of a Country https://qualla.com/poilao/ Poilão holds the southernmost point of Guinea-Bissau, a heavily forested island where the land simply runs out and the Atlantic takes over. It sits at the far southern reach of the Bijagós Archipelago, with its nearest neighbors - Meio, Cavalos, and João Vieira - scattered seven ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/u/v/poilao-wp/e9uv-poil-o-the-edge-of-a-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Poilão: A Beach Beyond Counting https://qualla.com/poilao/ The numbers strain belief. Between roughly 7,000 and 29,000 green sea turtle nests are laid here every year, and in exceptional seasons the count has soared past 60,000. The nesting is so dense that it has become a problem of abundance: turtles dig where turtles have already dug,...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/u/v/poilao-wp/e9uv-poil-o-a-beach-beyond-counting.mp3 0:06 3 full Poilão: An Island That Belongs to the Ancestors https://qualla.com/poilao/ Poilão is uninhabited, but it is not unclaimed. To the people of the Bijagós, it is a sacred island, traditionally held by the community of nearby Roxa. By custom, men do not land here except for traditional ceremonies, a restriction that has helped keep the island intact for cen...

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