Thousands of endangered leatherback turtle hatchlings were killed over the weekend in an erosion-control project on a Trinidad beach, according to reports from the Caribbean island. The work was done by the Trinidadian Ministry of Works after it got reports that erosion from the Grande Riviere river was threatening several homes and hotels. Excavators were used to try [...]
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A construction crew working on a Caribbean beach has inadvertently destroyed thousands of rare Leatherback turtle eggs and newly hatched turtles. Bulldozers diverting a river that runs along a beach in Trinidad mistakenly exposed th... Read Post
July 11 - Several hundred leatherback turtle eggs and hatchlings are crushed by bulldozers along the northern coast of Trinidad. Sarah Charlton reports. Read Post
Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad. Read Post