News Sea turtles chance to beat extinction destroyed by a selfie

[pornstarlet-net]

Costa Rican authorities have launched an investigation after a mob of irresponsible tourists and locals prevented sea turtles from laying their eggs along the country?s Pacific coast.

Crowds swarmed the Ostional Wildlife Refuge, in northwestern Guanacaste, and disrupted the nesting ritual for a number of olive ridley sea turtles, which are listed as a vulnerable or threatened species.

As they gathered in the hundreds, the visitors stood in the turtles? way as they swam ashore and even placed children on top of them to snap keepsake photos, causing many of the creatures to return to the sea without laying their eggs.

Ostional Wildlife Refuge tourists slammed for preventing sea turtles from laying eggs | Daily Mail Online


Too make things worse, the locals harvested most of the eggs to sell to the tourists

[SBJ]

Ostional Wildlife Refuge tourists slammed for preventing sea turtles from laying eggs | Daily Mail Online


Too make things worse, the locals harvested most of the eggs to sell to the tourists

when you read this part it makes the selling not sound so bad.. but the rest of it is sad about the tourists taking selfies..

Ostional Wildlife Refuge has been a protected area since 1982, and it is the only place in the world where it is legal to harvest and sell sea turtle eggs, according to Costa Rican officials.

Authorities monitor the harvesting of eggs left behind by the first wave of turtles, with the government saying the first wave was often destroyed by turtles arriving later or by high tides.

Locals, through community co-operatives, are legally permitted to collect a percentage of the eggs from the first three days of each nesting period (known as an arribada) for sale or consumption.

Costa Rica?s government says the program, developed with scientists in the 1980s, has helped to increase the sea turtle population, and income from the sale of eggs has been used to pay the guards who patrol the beach and fund research.

[PorN-LinK]

People are fucking ignorant

[pornstarlet-net]

when you read this part it makes the selling not sound so bad.. but the rest of it is sad about the tourists taking selfies..

Not against them selling a percentage of eggs, but it looks like a free for all in the pictures with no authorities looking in.

[VikingMan]

Well at least we know most of the tourists were not American because otherwise the media would be making sure everyone knew. Also I bet the majority of those tourists are liberal.

[SBJ]

Well at least we know most of the tourists were not American because otherwise the media would be making sure everyone knew.

yeah I didn't see any selfie sticks in those pictures. That is a dead give away.

[Scott McD]

Further proof humans are cunts...

[_Richard_]

wow

8char

[j3rkules]

Further proof humans are cunts...

[blackmonsters]

How can that many people be this stupid at once?

[Sly]

How can that many people be this stupid at once?

Two words: holy fuck.

But hey, at least they got a cool picture to post on Facebook and Instagram!

[PornSEO]

Ignorant retards.

[L-Pink]

Here in Florida even messing with a gopher turtle will get you in serious trouble.

[Jman]

Terrorists to nature. Fucking wankers

[directfiesta]

Here in Florida even messing with a gopher turtle will get you in serious trouble.

and they enforce it ... Same in Mexico ( Cancun/Riviera Maya/Tulum regions ).

[L-Pink]

and they enforce it ... Same in Mexico ( Cancun/Riviera Maya/Tulum regions ).

If you are caught touching one, even if he crawls into your front yard and starts digging it up, hence the name gopher tortoise, it's a $1,000.00 fine and up to a year in jail.

There is even a a 24-hour hotline and e-mail contact where people can report violations and earn up to $1,000 if the tip leads to an arrest.

[ilnjscb]

Assholes - those are not ecotourists, they're just ignorant sacks of shit. Good job, hastening the demise of sea turtles. Real ecotourist would never interfere.

[czarina]

unbelievable! Humans are freaking viruses!