Sentences with phrase «raiding turtle egg»
A longtime activist for nesting marine turtles, authorities believe Sandoval was killed for working to protect the animals against local criminal gangs that make money off raiding turtle egg nests.
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Two months after the murder of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 - year - old environmental worker trying to prevent egg poaching from leatherback turtle nests in Costa Rica, authorities made the first arrests on Wednesday in a series of raids in and around Limón, on the Caribbean coast.