The world according to me....

Not all my stories about dogs are sweet. Indeed, dogs can cause problems for turtles on nesting beaches. When in Brazil collaborating with Projeto TAMAR, I helped do necropsies on a loggerhead and hawksbill that had been killed by guard dogs when the turtles had arrived on the beach to nest. On Montjoly beach, in French Guiana, KWATA reported that dozens of adult olive ridley females were killed on the nesting beach by stray dogs in 2002. And on Awala-Yalimapo beach, in western French Guiana, street dogs often raid leatherback nests towards the end of the incubation period. Interestingly, once the dogs have finished with a nest, caracaras and vultures often will move in and pick through the remains.