But,turtle eggs or baby turtles would be small enough to float to the islands.

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The series includes such titles as "Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories."

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"They use turtle meat as food, they use turtle oil as medicine, they use turtle eggs as aphrodisiacs and other things."

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Members of a local conservation group, Watamu Turtle Watch, have been observing the nest for a couple of days.

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Wamukota also says coastal communities have long made the turtle an important part of their diets and tradition.

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Andrew Wamukota heads the Kenya Sea Turtle Conservation Committee, or KESCOM, which coordinates turtle conservation and education activities along Kenya's more than 500-kilometer coastline.

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"Each species of turtle plays a very vital role in the whole ecosystem functioning."

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The most common turtle species in Kenya are the green, hawksbill and olive ridley.

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To combat that, the Funzi Island Turtle Club regularly cleans beaches and replants mangroves.

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The Watamu Turtle Watch rescues turtles that are caught in fishermen's nets.

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"Therefore,to be able to shift the behavior of these people, to look at the turtle the other way around, then you have to involve them in the conservation of the same."

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"You paddle out every morning and a sea turtle might be swimming around, birds diving around you, you might even see a shark fin or dolphins and you realize you're just one citizen among all these other species.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"With our turtle release program, it is a compensation-based program where when the fishermen give us a call to go and rescue a turtle, we check the biometric measurements, tag the turtle, and compensate the fishermen for the time and effort they have taken to save these turtles and call us."

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