Comments on: Poachers sending death threats to conservationists in Guanacaste https://insidecostarica.com/2013/09/26/poachers-sending-death-threats-conservationists-guanacaste/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 By: Oliver Wendell Holmeshttps://insidecostarica.com/2013/09/26/poachers-sending-death-threats-conservationists-guanacaste/#comment-5565 Oliver Wendell Holmes Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:44:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=11255#comment-5565 It’s a pretty safe bet that in remote coastal areas, there will be locals subsisting on whatever they can scavenge from nature, and few if any law enforcement around to stave off poachers. The answer to the problem is for the government to take over the turtle conservancy.

It can hire and train locals ,who may have been poaching previously, along with armed guard(s) protect turtle nests, and collect excess eggs for sale providing an income and a disincentive to continue poaching, and paying for the program.

Along with being a feather in the administrations cap, this would help the environmental tourism industry as well as protect sea turtles.

The question of course is, is this too big a project for Laura to pull off?

]]> By: Mischahttps://insidecostarica.com/2013/09/26/poachers-sending-death-threats-conservationists-guanacaste/#comment-5562 Mischa Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:07:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=11255#comment-5562 It’s time CR got a grip on this problem and stopped showing the world its two faces. It’s just horrible the way environmental protectors are treated here – it hasn’t improved in the slightest in the 30 years I’ve been here. Too many people grabbing the tourist money as fast as they can – soon there won’t be any tourist money what then?

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