Naomi Campbell Puts Turtles in Danger With Casino Business Plan

When a big name celebrity goes into a new business adventure, it receives more scrutiny than when the average person goes into a new business, but supermodel Naomi Campbell is finding out that that's not always a good thing.

There is a coastal sanctuary in Kenya for turtles, and Campbell and her associates are planning to bring a casino and hotel complex to the land, a move that would almost certainly affect the animals the sanctuary is protecting.

Years of work has gone into saving endangered marine life in the Indian Ocean town of Malindi. The olive ridley, the hawksbill, and the green turtle are all species that come ashore in Malindi and set up their nest to lay their eggs.

Problem that will arise is when these baby eggs are hatched, they navigate toward the brightest natural light. which most of the time is the moon, between the night sky and the ocean. If a casino with all its glitz goes up, the artificial lights and noise could sway the turtles away from the sea, where they could not survive.

Opponents argue that Campbells plan, along with partner and former boyfriend Flavio Briatore, is to build a six star 40 apartment casino, and that by doing so, it would breach local planning regulations.

The defense of the casino is that it would provide dozens of jobs to people who currently live on almost no income.

September 13, 2007
Posted By Larry Rutherford
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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