A Ukrainian fitness influencer faces legal action in Oman after footage appeared to show him sitting on a protected sea turtle while his partner also posed on the animal and a hatchling was handled at a nesting site.
Vadym Oleynik and Olena Kravchenko were filmed in the Ras Al Hadd area, where sea turtles come ashore to nest. The footage appeared to show Oleynik climbing onto the shell of an adult turtle, while other images showed Kravchenko sitting on the animal and Oleynik holding a newly hatched turtle.
