04 May 2013
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Tourists are wrecking stingrays’ eating, sleeping, and mating habits
DestinationsEach stingray on this sandbar off Grand Cayman earns the islands about $500,000 every year in tourism revenue. Globally, this kind of interactive wildlife experience is big business, generating about $165 billion each year worldwide. Careful monitoring of these primordial-looking creatures revealed that the lifestyle of stingrays on the sandbar [in Stingray City] was barely recognizable as [...]
31 Jan 2013
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Cayman Islands sea turtle tourist trap is, surprise, not so good to turtles
DestinationsBefore you see the turtles at the Cayman Turtle Farm on Grand Cayman, you hear them. The whoosh of breath when they breach the surface in their concrete pools resounds throughout the world’s only sea-turtle farm. That, and the squeals of tourists, who mingle freely with these endangered creatures. “It should be a happy place, [...]
