Is Sea Turtle Soup Still a Threat to Turtles?

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It depends on what sort of samples we need to collect. If they're adult turtles, we will tag them, measure them and take a photo then usually let them go. That's how we figure out which nesting beach they were born at. But if they're the immature turtles, like for my study, we need to bring them on board to collect a blood sample from them to figure out their sex. Do people eat sea turtle soup? People do still eat sea turtles and sea turtle soup. There are locations worldwide where people still collect and harvest eggs and will eat eggs as well. I often people don't just put it in soup. They will eat the muscle as meat and stuff too

If you think you like sea turtles, get ready to become wildly obsessed with them. Cheloniologist Dr. Camryn Allen met up with Alie on a tropical island (ok, in a hotel room on a tropical island) to chat about flipper slappings, turtle rodeos, nesting BBs, current surfing, endangered statuses, field work, sleeping under water, world records, boopable noses, male:female ratios, mind-boggling navigation, what you can do to help them, and the many mysteries that still remain. Take a deep dive into the world of seartles. Or is it surtles?

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