Naomi Campbell’s Turtle Attack

[From: Environmental Graffiti]

Ecology — Robert
Naomi Campbell is no stranger to controversy. The supermodel is perhaps best known recently for legal issues including a number of assaults on her employees. But her most recent controversy involves not her temper, but a turtle.

Campbell and her boyfriend, Renault F1 team head Flavio Briatore, have submitted a proposal to build a six star hotel and casino at Malindi in Kenya.

The £11 million project, located at the site of the ruined Jambo Beach Hotel, will be targeted at the super-rich, having been described as a “billionaire’s resort�?. The site, however, also happens to be the nesting site of 3 species of sea turtle: the green, hawksbill, and Olive Ridley turtles.

Conservationists claim that the beach next to the proposed development site is used as a nesting spot by turtles, a claim Campbell and Briatore reject, and that development will disturb the turtles’ nesting habits.