Agnese Mancini: Project Update: March to April 2008

From March to April 2008 we continued monitoring beaches on both the Pacific and the Gulf coasts. Very few sea turtles have been found stranded, nevertheless we found an increasing number of sea lions and dolphins. We also found 5 stranded grey whales, which death cause is still unknown.

During Holy Week we increased our talks and interviews with community members as during this period sea turtle consumption usually increases dramatically. Even if we could not find evidence of such consumption, through interviews we learnt that it still is very common to eat sea turtle meat, considered the best substitute for red meat.