Sentences with phrase «turtle egg poaching»

Sandoval's brutal death brought the issue of turtle egg poaching (and its little - known link to the drug trade) to a global audience, and forced Costa Rica to take a look at holes in its environmental policies.

The investigation is just getting under way (here's a Twitter item from the Justice Department), but there are already signs that the killing was related to the intersection of turtle egg poaching and the drug trade.

The eggs» alleged aphrodisiac properties have made it popular amongst Panamanian poachers, who have contributed to a 30 percent rise in turtle egg poaching since 1996

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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.

Shark finning and poaching turtle eggs are serious problems in Costa Rica.

Regarding poaching turtle eggs, David Godfrey is Executive Director of Sea Turtle Conservancy, the oldest sea turtle organization in the world.

Sea turtles are under enormous threat as they're caught as bycatch in fisheries, and lose their habitats to overfishing, pollution, and other human encroachment — including poaching and rampant sea turtle egg collection.