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'A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead'
Adams, Nalisha
http://www.ipsnews.net/2018/11/turtle-worth-alive-dead/Date Written: 2018-11-26 Publisher: Inter Press Service News Agency Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23140 Various participants at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya discuss ways they can sustainably economically benefit from the local environment. Abstract: -- The area of Matura is one of the few places in the world where the leatherback turtles nest. Sammy tells IPS that it is also easily accessible via a beach road, something which places the turtles at risk to poachers. But in four years the community residents, who had formed a conservation organisation, were able to stop the slaughter of turtles, Sammy tells IPS. The residents themselves had been part of the problem initially, he adds. "They changed because the community became part of the solution." Subject Headings |