Lights Kill Turtles

[murph]

Hey folks thought some of you might like to take a gander at this little article...hopefully this link works.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/962449.asp

-murph

[KrokadilyanGuy3]

Sadly enough, lights kill many species of sea turtles from the Americas and other continents as well.. Xain

[XxRachxX]

noo! thats horrible!! i actually went there on holiday too! ban the discos!! ban the discos!!! i never like discos anyway..... Bah! i feel kinda guilty.....

[red bootz]

This is a tough situation. The tourism industry needs these animals to get the tourists to come, thus they are, in a sense, driving conservation efforts. Yet, in the end its also contributing to the demise of the animal it first set out to protect...
I don't think its as simple a question as ban discos or ban whale watching. Without these dollars there will be NO incentive for the indegeounous peoples to protect their environment.

[XxRachxX]

i was just kidding when i said ban the disco! it wil never happen! it would like asking the whole world to live without light! and i doubt many people would do that!

[red bootz]

Yeah,
Its a sad fact of our current civilization that no matter how un-invasive we try to be, we always affect some type of flora or fauna ina negative way...