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    TV station apologizes for making researcher dig up rare turtle eggs

     

    KUMAMOTO -- Local television station TV Kumamoto has issued an apology for the actions of a cameraman who pressured a researcher to dig up eggs of a rare type of sea turtle so the station could film them for a program.

     

    Station officials said a 44-year-old freelance cameraman in charge of news in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, approached a local researcher specializing in rare animals on June 21, asking him to dig up eggs of a loggerhead sea turtle.

     

    The researcher initially refused the request, but he later complied after receiving repeated requests from the cameraman, and the eggs were filmed for a program broadcast on June 22.

     

    The Environment Ministry designates loggerhead sea turtles as creatures that are "increasingly facing danger of extinction." Digging up their eggs can threaten their safety. TV Kumamoto broadcast an apology for the incident on Wednesday.

     

    "There was a possibility of the eggs being damaged as a result of the investigations by the reporter, who had lacked knowledge," a TV Kumamoto production chief said. "We will make all possible considerations in the future when reporting on rare animals."

     

    The turtle eggs were initially discovered by the researcher in another location on June 18. The following day he moved them to a safer location in the sand dunes so they wouldn't be trodden on.

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