Posted on 02/11/2023 10:10:10 AM PST by nickcarraway
Armed with a wooden stick, a bucket and a headlamp, Philippine construction worker Johnny Manlugay hunts every night for the eggs of sea turtles on the pristine beaches of the northern province of La Union.
The 55-year-old can easily spot nesting sites, having been trained in his youth by his grandfather how to track the animals and their eggs, which his family traded at the time or ate.
But his egg-stealing days are over. Now Manlugay has turned his skills to helping protect marine turtles on the provincial beaches favoured by the endangered Olive Ridley species to build nesting sites.
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Seems like a reasonable way to incentivize conservation.
Reminds me of Georgia Costanza and hie Galapagos days
those cute lil dickens
i could just eat em up
how do you make turtle soup?
Hawaiians (the race) nearly wiped them out in the islands poaching them.
They care SO much for the land. Had to outlaw hunting them to stop the extermination. They had already wiped out several bird species for the feathers.
“We didn’t know poaching was illegal...”
Yeah, NOT!
He knew poaching was illegal and the poachers knew damn well what they were doing to the turtle population.
Dude, whatever let’s you look in the mirror I guess.
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