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sinkingfeeling

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Tue Jul 10, 2012, 04:22 PM Jul 2012

Hundreds of turtle hatchlings crushed by excavators

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/10/report-thousands-of-turtle-hatchlings-crushed-by-excavators/?hpt=hp_t2

Updated at 2:59 p.m. ET] Hundreds of endangered leatherback turtle hatchlings and eggs were crushed over the weekend when attempts to stop erosion on a tourist beach in Trinidad went badly wrong, according to conservationists.

Workers were redirecting a river that was endangering a major nesting habitat for leatherback turtles and encroaching on local hotels and businesses in Grande Riviere, a popular tourist spot on the Caribbean island's north coast.

However, the workers severely damaged a nesting area with a bulldozer and an excavator, killing or harming hundreds of unhatched turtle eggs, the local conservation groups said.

A rescue attempt did manage to save some of the turtle hatchlings, but local conservationists say they're demanding a meeting with government officials to prevent the situation from happening again.
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Hundreds of turtle hatchlings crushed by excavators (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Jul 2012 OP
Good work, boys! longship Jul 2012 #1
A whole generation of the McConnells--wiped out at once...... lastlib Jul 2012 #2
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