Protected Turtles Killed With Machetes In Mexico
February 10, 2007 @ 09:08 AM (EST)
Source: Iol.co.za
Mexican poachers bludgeoned and chopped about 80 protected Olive Ridley sea turtles to death for their eggs, believed to be an aphrodisiac, and left their shells scattered on a Pacific beach.
The carnage was discovered on Escobilla beach, Mexico's top nesting ground for the animals, in the state of Oaxaca last weekend, the government's environmental protection agency Profepa said on Tuesday...
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