Egg Poaching
Six men and women have been arrested in Mexico for poaching 52,000 sea turtle eggs. (News source.)
Labels: poaching, sea turtle
posted by insects.questions@gmail.com @ 11:03 AM
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2 Comments:
At September 1, 2007 at 9:46 AM ,
Unknown said...
What do you think they were going to do with the eggs?
At September 1, 2007 at 10:23 AM ,
insects.questions@gmail.com said...
In Mexico, sea turtle eggs are a delicacy -- and are even considered an aphrodisiac... That's been one of the biggest hurdles in Mexico; last year or so, one conservation group distributed posters with attractive models on them, saying something to the effect, that you don't need to eat sea turtle eggs to be virile.
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