Trinidad villages embrace threatened sea turtles, spark tourist boom

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 while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using their powerful front flippers to move their bulky frames onto the sand.

Sea turtles make comeback in Caribbean

The number of leatherbacks on this tropical beach in Trinidad has rebounded in spectacular fashion, with some 500 female turtles nesting each night during the peak season in May and June.

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Villages in Trinidad have embraced threatened sea turtles, sparking a tourist boom.        

Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

By DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press

Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 9:58 am, Saturday, May 18, 2013 GRANDE RIVIERE, Trinidad (AP) — 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 while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. In a 2009 global study on the economics of marine turtle tourism, researchers from the environmental group World Wildlife Fund found turtle tourism earned nearly three times as much money as the sale of turtle meat, leather and eggs...

Sea Turtle Comeback: Giant Leatherback Numbers Rebound In Parts Of Caribbean

The Huffington Post News Editors

GRANDE RIVIERE, Trinidad -- 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 while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using their powerful front flippers to move their bulky frames onto the sand.

In years past, poachers from Grande Riviere and nearby towns would ransack the turtles' buried eggs and hack the critically threatened reptiles to death with machetes to sell their meat in the market...