A British man on holiday in Nicaragua has rescued two large loggerhead turtles from potentially ending up on a dinner menu. Chris Skone-Roberts, 44, was horrified when he saw two 5ft loggerheads with their fins tied up, on their backs struggling to breathe in the garden of a bar on Little Corn Island off the east coast of the Central American country. The animals had been dragged from the sea and left to suffocate before they would have been butchered and served up as a local delicacy Skone-Roberts tried to throw water on the mammals to stop them dehydrating further but a woman pulled him off, angrily shouting that they were her property. It is thought that once dead, the woman would have sold the meat on the black market. Skone-Roberts called police to report the illegal activity, which sadly is becoming increasingly common in Nicaragua. While he waited for the police, Skone-Roberts rounded up a large group of tourists and divers to help rescue the dying animals “Sometimes you are faced with a situation so outrageous that you have no other choice than to intervene and right a wrong, he said. tinyurl/np2damb
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:58:06 +0000
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