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June Haimoff is an English environmentalist who settled in Dalyan in southwestern Turkey (Muğla Province) after her retirement and has launched a successful campaign for the conservation of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) which lay their eggs in the İztuzu Beach in Dalyan. She relates the struggle and the victory for the preservation of these species in her book titled Kaptan June and the Turtles published in 1997.
