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Fake turtle eggs used to track illegal wildlife trade CNN 12/16/2020 By Nell Lewis, CNN © Hal Brindley Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchlings at Refugio Vida Silvestre La Flor. Playa La Flor, Nicaragua. © Hal Brindley .com The phone buzzed as the tracker came online, and a little circular blip appeared on the map. Helen Pheasey watched the dot intently as it moved inland from a beach on Costa Rica s Pacific coast. It just kept moving, she says. Every hour I m checking, and it s gone further and further. Pheasey, then a PhD student at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology in the UK, was tracking a stolen item but not the usual type.

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