Gilbert Brown hunches over an endangered green sea turtle stashed under his pile dwelling on the Caribbean shore. The ancient creature has been flipped on its shell with yellow rope looped and bound through holes punched in its fins to keep it from escaping before slaughter. “I’ve always eaten turtle,” says Brown, an indigenous Miskito Indian who routinely catches turtle from his homemade panga. “Always will.” As part of their migrations, green turtles feed on the abundant sea grass in Nicaraguan waters, considered among the largest Atlantic foraging areas for the species. When they do, up to 10,000 of the endangered reptiles are slaughtered every year here for meat despite their plummeting populations, the U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Society says. The sea turtle is a... [Log in to read more]