Instablogs - Mobile - Foreign poachers kill another 100 critically endangered turtles of the Philippines

WWF condemns the blatant poaching of internationally-protected marine life and hopes that the Philippine government will finally have the resolve to dispense due justice against foreign poachers who disregard both local and international laws.

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Celso Camargo

This is so sad!

Jaiyant Cavale

It really is! Poaching really seems to be a very big business these days. And the fact that the governments almost always do nothing shows why we must refrain from voting.

Grace Calderon

The Philippines is so vulnerable to poaching and illegal fishing because it’s an archipelago of 7,017 islands. The country also has thousands and thousands of kilometers of coastline. We are also at the cross-transit points for marauders at sea since we lie between the South China and the Pacific Ocean.

It’s not that the Philippines lack pertinent laws. The Philippine Coast Guard and other maritime police cannot cope with implementing the laws.

The country, of course, thanks international NGOs such as WWF and Greenpeace.

Oscar

We have this problem in Mexico as well..Some guys actually steal the eggs to eat them, as it was once rumored to make them testosterone machines...

Grace Calderon

Over in Asia, the Chinese, in particular, make this a delectable exotic dish. And expensive, too!

The turtle shell also becomes expensive jewelry.

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