Taking on Turtle Egg Poaching With Fake Eggs
In many parts of the world, sea turtle eggs are a prized delicacy, but illegal poaching and a hungry black market trade have taken a toll on global turtle populations. Enter Kim WilliamsGuillen, an ecologist with the conservation group Paso Pacifico. After realizing that the only way of stopping the illegal trade was to find where the eggs go once theyve been plucked from their nests, her team devised an ingenious solution: GPSenabled decoys that are able to track the eggs from beach to market. But how d
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