I hear Tourism Cook Island is embarking on another round of safety guidelines and regulation for turtle tour operators at Avaavaroa.

The Aronga Mana of the area are getting in on the act too.

What about the poor turtle! They must congregate there for a reason as no other place around the island have this presence of turtle. Who is looking after the turtle and especially, carrying out research to see why they are always staying around this passage and most critically, what is the presence of tourist doing to these turtles.

Please treat the turtle as priority before tourists and the money hungry operators exploiting our turtles.

Friends of the Avaavaroa turtles

(Name and address supplied)