(From emailwire.com) – Bahamas Government urged to pass legislation to stop the killing and torture of sea turtles in The Bahamas says Bahamas Sea Turtle Conservation Group. Turtle Group asks: If Cuba can protect sea turtles, why can”t The Bahamas?
Bahamas Sea Turtle Conservation Group – http://www.saveourseaturtles.com, a new organization with wide support from the animal rights community, is going international in a campaign to end the harvesting of all sea turtles in the country.
“Fishermen bring the creatures ashore with their flippers pierced and tied with straw; they are routinely dragged on to boat ramps and turned on their backs and left to suffer for days in the hot sun,” said Mather.
“I have seen children jumping on and torturing the helpless animals and I have seen them dragged away attached to the back of trucks.”