Costa
Rica's beaches are the nesting sites of four endangered sea turtle
species, which return each year to lay their eggs, but egg-poaching is
up 30 percent since removing turtle eggs from Costa Rica's beaches
became illegal in 1996, said Beth Adubato, a New York Institute of
Technology criminologist. http://bit.ly/10S3OkJ
Many of the culprits are Panamanians, who cross the border and take
eggs by the truckload. "We see the trucks coming, we see the eggs being
taken away, but we don't know how to stop it," she said.
Many of the culprits are Panamanians, who cross the border and take eggs by the truckload. "We see the trucks coming, we see the eggs being taken away, but we don't know how to stop it," she said.
