Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
Sea turtle eggs are frequently poached from Costa Rican beaches, Central America. Trade of sea turtle egg is against the law in Costa Rica. Therefore, police asked scientist team. Scientist team put around a hundred fake eggs in sea turtle nests in beaches and waited. The eggs were made to look realistic. Each eggs contained a GPS devise to track the location of the eggs and those gave information of their locations to team’s smartphone every one hour. Five fake eggs were taken by the poachers. Those showed the complete trade root from the beach to the buyers.
poach (密猟する), Costa Rica (コスタリカ共和国,中南米の国), against the law (法に反する), fake (ニセの), nest (巣), contain (内蔵する), track (追跡する), poacher (密猟者)
Questions:
- Where did the poachers take sea turtle eggs?
- Is the trade of sea turtle egg allowed in Costa Rica?
- Who made the fake eggs?
- Why were fake eggs made?
- What could scientist team do by using the fake eggs?
- How were the eggs tracked?
- What is your opinion?