On 12/22/2025 2:51 PM, Mike Lazzari via olympus wrote:
Yes, no touching or interfering in any way allowed. Some people were
allow to release the turtles but used surgical gloves...and paid 150
pesos. According to the biologist in charge about 1:1000 return so the
chances any of the group that we released will return are approaching
none. Volunteers travel 20km of beach each night looking for signs of
nests.
Ah, I wondered if that was at Tortugero. I was there in the early '90s. They were battling nighttime egg theft. We went
out with a guide in the night. We found a new nest that had not yet been raided. (Did we see the mother heading out?) He
made a mess of the sand over it and broke a couple of eggs on top, to look as though is had already been emptied.
They had both "commercial" raiders, who sold the eggs (internationally?) and locals, whose ancestors had been eating
the eggs for decades, centuries, forever, in their minds. They felt that the protection folks were stealing their
rightful eggs. It was a serious nightly battle.
Do you still get there on a small boat, through the passage between the mainland/swamp and the barrier islands? I
imagine it's still a place where nothing is ever quite dry. 🙂Same dampness in the cloud forest at Rara Avis.
Travelin' Moose
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