ET phone home...The Centro Mexicano de la Tortuga in Mazunte was founded in 1994, four years after Mexico's marine turtles were granted fully protected status.
The centre's motto Conocer para Conservar testifies to its on-going task of binding local communities to its conservational objectives — only a single generation after they were forced to abandon practices of exploitation on which they had been dependent for many more.
I recall that back in the late 80s turtle was an almost unavoidable dish in Placencia (Belize). Nowadays they are absent from both the menus and the Caribbean waters around the spit. Along this stretch of Pacific coastline the hunting ban appears to have been imposed in a more timely fashion.
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We were offered turtle soup in Peten Itza--across the lake from Flores--and declined.
Great shot, by the way.
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