Bahamas Sea Turtle Group Launches International Ad Campaign to Stop the Slaughter of Sea Turtles in The Bahamas

Bahamas Sea Turtle Group Launches International Ad Campaign to Stop the Slaughter of Sea Turtles in The Bahamas: "Bahamas Sea Turtle Conservation Group - http://www.saveourseaturtles.com, a new organization with wide support from the animal rights community, is going international in a campaign to end the harvesting of all sea turtles in the country. 'It's a national disgrace that these magnificent animals are still hunted at all, and that they are so cruelly treated when brought ashore,' said Jane Mather, President of Advocate for Animal Rights, a spokesperson for the new group. 'Fishermen bring the creatures ashore with their flippers pierced and tied with straw; they are routinely dragged on to boat ramps and turned on their backs and left to suffer for days in the hot sun,' said Mather. 'I have seen children jumping on and torturing the helpless animals and I have seen them dragged away attached to the back of trucks.'"