drc: Group Raises Alarm on Marine Turtle Poaching

An animal rights group has appealed to the Congolese authorities to revise the existing endangered species law to include marine turtles among the country's protected animals. ''Despite the benefits that sea turtles bring, they are being massacred by coastal residents for food or for economic reasons,'' says Alexis Mayet, president of the Congolese Educational Association for the Environment and Nature, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), with the French acronym ACEN.