PLEASE SUPPORT TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER!!!
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"Sea turtles on Bali are once more in danger of being butchered. You can help prevent it. Once again we ask for your support. We have managed to put a stop to this slaughter before. But now the 'turtle mafia' on Bali is at it again.
The gov...ernor of Bali is being pressured to permit slaughtering thousands of sea turtles for 'religious purposes'.
The gory reality of how the sea turtles are being slaughtered on Bali -
About a year ago we proudly announced that the campaign to stop the slaughter of sea turtles on Bali had been a success. The cages and slaughterhouses in Tanjung Benoa are now all empty and no more turtles are being traded in public places. While it is still possible to find some animals on the black market but they are now hard to find. The number of killed and traded animals have dropped around 90 percent since the onset of the campaign!
There were reasons to be proud. After an eight year battle against the Turtle mafia we seem to have won the war. Yet the issue is now rising its ugly head again. Thanks to an intensive lobby by various interest groups, the Balinese Government are now considering permitting the killing and trading of a thousand sea turtles per year ...for Balinese rituals.
Obviously such a decision will open the floodgates to uncontrolled killing once again and it will be impossible to control the number of animals slaughtered! We need to react now!
It is not too late to act. The opposition and the Pro Fauna organisation in engaged in ongoing discussions on various political levels. But they need our immediate support. SOS-Seaturtles is already financially supporting the entire administration as well as initiating a petition during which thousands of letters of protest will be sent to the authorities.
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