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In this Sept. 21, 2019 photo, a olive ridley sea turtle arrives to lay her eggs on a beach in Jaque, Women in Difficulties
Panama. EMERGENCY
Associated Press Police 100
By ARNULFO FRANCO in two months' time. Then case they run into thieves Oranjestad 527 3140
Associated Press the baby turtles will be re- or smugglers. Noord 527 3200
JAQUE, Panama (AP) — leased to the sea. "The eggs are taken from Sta. Cruz 527 2900
San Nicolas
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Iver Valencia goes out at While the government con- the beach to be put in this Police Tipline 11141
dusk each evening dur- tributed toward building place," Valencia said. "Just Ambulancia 911
ing nesting season with a the hatchery, the patrols for the fact that people Fire Dept. 115
group of lantern-wielding are strictly a community here ... haven't become Red Cross 582 2219
villagers to walk a stretch volunteer effort by Valen- conscious of protecting
of Panamanian beach. cia, who is the pastor of a the blessing that the tur- TAXI SERVICES
Their mission: to find nests local evangelical church, tles come here to lay their Taxi Tas 587 5900
where olive ridley sea tur- and his colleagues. The pa- eggs. Instead they eat Prof. Taxi 588 0035
587 2300
Taxi D.T.S.
tles lay their eggs and take trols are carried out during them, sell them." Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
them to a hatchery safe the May to December nest- "For me the main predator A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
from predators. ing season, which peaks in is always man," Valencia Women in Difficulties
On a recent night, Valen- September, October and said, though dogs, birds TRAVEL INFO
cia and the others in the re- November. and crabs also eat the
mote province of Darien in They built the hatchery eggs. Aruba Airport 524 2424
southeast Panama found near a border police sta- Jaque is a fishing village American Airlines 582 2700
Avianca
588 0059
five nests with dozens of tion where agents try to and some locals also sell Jet Blue 588 2244
eggs. prevent poaching and handicrafts, including Surinam 582 7896
Valencia, 57, who arrived protect the volunteers on plates made from palm
here as an adolescent their nightly collections. The fronds decorated with Women in Difficulties
from a town bordering Co- volunteers often walk far drawings of the turtles. Lo- CRUISES
lombia, has been doing into the night, so they pre- cal kids play soccer on the
this for 18 years in the face fer to go with agents of the beach, but some also help
of threats from poachers. National Borders Service in collect the eggs at night.q
The task has been further
complicated by the drug
traffickers who ply this jun-
gle as well. September 29
Jaque, a town of 2,000, is Freewinds
only reached by air or sea. Women in Difficulties
Valencia and his allies built AID FOUNDATIONS
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