Ocean Sentry
(From thebahamasweekly.com) The Bahamas Sea Turtle Conservation Group’s campaign to ban the killing of sea turtles in The Bahamas is gaining momentum, says Jane Mather, president of Advocate for Animal Rights, one of the group’s organizers. Sign petition
Mather says more than 5,000 people have so far signed an online petition (on www.Care2petition.com ) to end the sea turtle killings and nearly 230,000 people have seen our online ad campaign. Bumper stickers are being seen ever more frequently on cars around The Bahamas saying, “Stop the Killing” of sea turtles.
Mather also outlined that press releases are being sent out worldwide and covered on environmental web sites to bring attention to the cruelty that is taking place in The Bahamas.
Mather says Bahamas fisheries laws still allow the catching and slaughter of certain turtles, even though the country is a party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which calls on member states to protect all marine turtles as endangered or threatened.
(By Jane Mather, The Bahamas Sea Turtle Conservation Group)
