Turtle Farming

I am a close supporter and admirer of the work of WSPA, World Society for the Protection of Animals. Currently they are campaigning to stop sea turtle farming in the Cayman Islands.

'Sea turtles crushed, stressed and diseased. Living with open wounds in waste-filled waters. Welcome to the Cayman Turtle Farm.'

The Cayman Turtle Farm was built in 1968 and aimed to deal with the rising consumption of green sea turtle meat, by farming the animals industrially so as not to deplete the wild population of the species. This farm is known as a 'tourist attraction' and a 'conservation project', however it is in fact abusive of the turtles and most tourists are disgusted.

The conditions at the Caymen Turtle Farm are appalling. Due to the close proximity of the turtles, stress-induced fighting causes many infected wounds and inbreeding produces many deformities such as turtles being born with no eyes.

Also the farm does not seem to be imitating their natural environment at all as you would expect a conservation project to do. An example of this is their food. In the wild green sea, turtles have a very specific diet and only feed on sea grass - however on the farm they are fed pellets to increase their growth, proving that this is no conservation project, but rather a commercial farm only interested in producing large turtles to sell. 

To support the campaign about this go to :http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=24&ea.campaign.id=16220&ea.tracking.id=website

For more information on this go to: http://stopseaturtlefarm.org