A friend of mine sent these pictures from Costa Rica,with sea turtles on the brink of extinction it is amazing that the good Sea Shepard crew isn't doing anything about it. This is truly disgusting but yet someone's eating these eggs to make it a marketable food source. I don't really blame the people digging up and selling the eggs,after all they're just trying to survive. The Asian food market is more to blame due to the fact they will pay whatever they ask for them with no concern that they are destroying a species that has been around for millions of years!
Hard to believe that in this century this still goes on so they can make turtle egg soup in Japan and China. I will never feel guilty about havering an aquarium when stuff like this is still tolerated and ignored because it doesn't serve someone's agenda.
When were these pics taken? I'm not sure if this particular species of sea turtle is endangered but it seems like another case of humans taking everything they can get without thought of the future. Sad.
The olive ridley turtles at this site (and at about 10 other beaches around the world) nests in a near simultaneous arrival over several days, which is called an arribada. Ostional residents are permitted to collect and market the earliest nests, because later nesting sea turtle mothers accidentally destroy many of the earlier nests. Harvesting may actually increase overall hatching survival because there are less broken rotting eggs that create a soup of bacteria that can damage the eggs that are laid by turtles arriving late in the arribada. No harvesting of these late eggs is allowed. They are protected as they incubate and the hatchlings emerge to return to the sea.
While biologists have not demonstrably proven that the egg harvesting improves hatchling success, we do know that the Ostional nesting turtle population is stable or growing at this site. The justification for this program was also based on an economic analysis that suggested flooding the market w/these legally harvested eggs (sold at a low price controlled by the government) would decrease overall poaching throughout the country by bringing down the value of turtle eggs in the black market.
Thanks for the compliment! I'm not Ret though, I'm Rich Ross.
Thanks for the link Rich. Always best to have a second view of things. At least we got some people debating for sure. I sent the link to my friend who was their during the harvest. He does say that he was told that it was a sanctioned harvest.
Really you think welfare would fix this? Go look at the welfare lines in Flint (and probably many other large cities), they are filled with drug dealers and the parking lot is filled with Caddys, benz's BMWs etc... Welfare is a joke and so over abused it is ridiculous all it would do is make the lazy people in that country even lazier. **** I have no problem with them selling drugs, the harder the better, its called population control. But I have a problem with them making serious bank and then turning around and collecting hundreds in welfare along with free insurance that is way better then most (if not all) hard working americans can get!
Call me a dick all you want, but I kinda commend these douche bags for atleast hustlin and trying to provide for their family and not sitting around being a drain on society.
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Glad to see this may not be as bad as it seems and actually beneficial in several ways
I'm not speaking about government welfare Chris. Sadly the definition has lost its true meaning to some.
Noun
the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity
The health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group.
Where was Snorkel Bob !???
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