BendiNewsTest: Mob of tourists blocks sea turtles from their nesting ground in Costa Rica

These days a few dollars is all you need to get personal with nature, but that new intimacy often comes at tremendous cost to the nature we’re supposed to revere. This weekend, hundreds of tourists were unleashed on female Costa Rican sea turtles who were attempting to climb the beach to lay their eggs. The tourists, most brought by paid tour guides to watch the miracle unfold, swarmed a national wildlife preserve in Canton Santa Cruz. Instead of allowing the turtles to complete their migration, the Green Prophet reports, the tourists poured onto the beach, more interested in getting bikini selfies than watching nature at its most magnificent.

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