Keith, I have been to the beach several times to watch the process... it is really interesting. Under the new law and with the cooperation of the locals MINAE (nature ministry) says and can prove that the numbers of hatchlings that make it to the sea is more than a hundred times it was 50 years ago.
The original story was posted (maybe it was a re-print) by PETAs' buddies at Care2. Their story as written is bullshit. Johnathon has it pegged. On Oct 15, 10:39 am, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > Boy that sure changes the perspective of the initial e-mail and pictures! > > Thanks for sharing this Jonathan!! > > KeithInTampa > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jonathan Ashley < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > As described in a 1998 article by National Public Radio correspondent John > > Burnett, the gatherers are engaged in a government sponsored conservation > > activity <http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/sdrp/tortugas.html>, collecting > > a relatively small portion of eggs, which biologists have averred would > > otherwise have been destroyed, from the millions of olive ridley eggs laid > > during the turtles' reproductive season: > > > In the coastal town of Ostional, located on Costa Rica's Guanacaste > > Peninsula, a 13-year-old project has helped stabilize the population of the > > olive ridley sea turtle. > > > For 10 months of the year, usually around the third quarter of the moon, > > olive ridleys swim by the hundreds of thousands to a single mile of beach at > > Ostional in an ancient reproductive rite little understood by scientists. > > They scuttle onto the sand, dig a hole with their flippers, and drop in an > > average of 100 leathery, white eggs the size of ping pong balls. Over the > > course of a five-day "arribada," literally, an arrival, nesting females will > > leave as many as 10 million eggs in the black, volcanic sand. Mass nesting > > is nature's way of ensuring that after the turkey vultures, feral dogs and > > raccoons have eaten all the fresh eggs they want, there will be enough left > > over to produce a sustainable population of olive ridleys. > > > In the early 1980s, scientists learned that because of limited space on the > > beach, females arriving later destroy the first laid eggs. The researchers > > wondered: why not let poachers have the doomed eggs? > > > Under a law written especially for Ostional, the government allows an egg > > harvesting cooperative to collect all they can during the first 36 hours of > > every arribada. Coop members then truck the eggs around the country, selling > > them to bars and restaurants. In return, the community must protect the > > olive ridley. Coop members clean debris from the nesting areas and patrol > > the beach day and night for poachers. Forty days later, when the hatchlings > > emerge, children from the Ostional Primary school run to the beach. > > > "We protect the tortugitas when they crawl to the ocean. If we don't, the > > vultures will get them and bite their heads off," says a local 8-year-old > > boy, breathlessly. > > > On 10/15/2010 8:06 AM, Keith In Tampa wrote: > > > Is this really taking place down there Mark?? What are the eggs used > > for?? Food? > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Daniel Seigler < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > >> haven't verified on my own, but the pics look convincing to me. > > >> ------------------------------ > >> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:04:21 -0400 > >> From: Subject: FW: Why sea turtles are in trouble > > >> [image: Click > >> Me!]<http://www.incredimail.com/app/?tag=display_picture_click_me_re〈=...> > > >> *-------Original Message-------* > > >> *From:* *Subject:* FW: Why sea turtles are in trouble > > >> *Subject:* Sea Turtle extinction is NOT global warming > > >> *This a little disturbing to me.* > > >> *Aha, maybe we have just discovered why the sea turtle is going extinct** & > >> it is not global warming**. !!!!!!!.... * > > >> *World shame coast in COSTA RICA * > > >> *Please distribute widely * > > >> *The Turtle eggs are stolen to be sold. * > > >> *The planet is thankful for the forwarding of this email.* > > >> [image: FREE Animations for your email - by IncrediMail! 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