Hundreds of sea turtles released in Nicaragua

[Catherine]

In a conservation effort to save endangered sea turtles, Nicaragua has released 400 baby sea turtles into the Pacific ocean.
The baby Paslama turtles were released at the Rio Escalante Chacocente wildlife reserve. 


https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articl...urtles.%22

Nicaragua has some major turtle nesting sites. Thousands of turtles lay their eggs every year.


https://www.philstar.com/world/2021/12/0...guan-coast

Conservation efforts are being made to protect the turtles and their nests.
Sadly humans are one of the greatest threats. 
That makes this turtle release very important.  Humans are making the effort to repair the damage we have done.
Well done Nicaragua.

[LPC]

Yes, good news. I just hope that this will not encourage turtle hunters to start again.

[Catherine]

Turtle hunters kill adults so they do real damage to the species they kill. There need to be stiffer penalties against turtle hunters.
If risks are too high it won't be worth the risk to hunt turtles.

They need to pressure restaurants that have turtle on the menu. They must be buying their meat from turtle hunters.