Work crews crush sea turtle eggs on Trinidad beach

Published July 10, 2012 12:30am ET



KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Thousands of leatherback turtle eggs and hatchlings have been crushed by heavy machinery along a Trinidad beach widely regarded as the world’s densest nesting area for the biggest of all living sea turtles, conservationists said Monday.

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