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Endangered leatherback turtle killed on foreshore
An unsettling discovery was made on Wednesday, last, by residents of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, as they came across a dead leatherback turtle between the rocks in their village’s rip-rap sea-defence structure.
Feroze Khan, Managing Director of the West Indies Sports Complex, contacted Kaieteur News yesterday to inform that the carcass was still at the location and that it was giving off an unbearable odour.
When Kaieteur News arrived at the scene, flies surrounded the dead animal, and it was apparent that the turtle did not die of natural causes.
Feroze Khan pointing to the wounds about the turtle’s head while holding up the cord that was tied around the animal’s front leg.
In fact, there were visible marks on the head that suggested the turtle had been chopped several times, thus resulting in its demise.
On its left front leg there was a cord attached. This was apparently used to secure the creature after it came ashore.
According to Khan, there was another leatherback turtle a fair distance away, larger than the one that had been found dead.
It could not be determined if the other turtle died of natural causes or if it was also chopped about its body and head since it was too far out for persons to ‘get a closer look’.
Yesterday, the other turtle which Khan and other residents spoke about, was nowhere in sight. The villagers explained that the water most likely carried the remains back to sea.
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