Environmentalist Jairo
Mora Sandoval
Picture credit: Didiher Chacón,
director of WIDECASTBeing young should be a time of exploration, adventure and joyful discovery.
It is a time when many of
us are at our highest intellectual, love and
friendship peak.
But, one thing that it
should never be, however, is a time to die
or to be murdered.
This week on an island
renowned the world over for its stunning
beauty, an innocent young man just doing
what he loved, protecting
leatherback
turtles, was murdered for being
in the wrong place and opposing turtle
poachers.
This ugly word,
poachers, is getting way too much press any
more and I for one, am sick of the way that
these monsters have chosen to handle those
who get in the way of their dirty little
money business.
Jairo, an environmentalist
and native of this place where he died, was
a mere 26 years old and should have had a
full lifetime ahead of him in a field where
anyone can become a hero, at least as far as
those who are saved are concerned.
In recent years, Costa
Rica has been rumored to have become a place
of potential danger for outsiders and going
there for a vacation or a honeymoon could be
risky.
The world that we live in
today, has a new breed of hired
killers and getting caught in their cross
hairs, can and has proved fatal, as in Jairo’s case this week.
I have just signed this
petition for him, would you please consider
doing so as well?
No one should ever have to
put their life at risk or be killed, for
protecting animals.
And as today is,
World
Oceans Day, might we all take a
moment to say a little prayer for all of
those like this beautiful young man, who
care so much and put their lives at great
risk every day, to try to save Endangered
wildlife on our planet?
Vaya Con Dios Jairo,
may you go with God.
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