Sea turtle

risk of extinction. Plastic wastes are one of the main reasons for the death of sea turtles. whale hunters hunt whales and sharks are finned and caught in nets. Animals under the labeled endangered are whales, sharks, and sea turtles. The main causes for their population decrease are man-made. Topic sentence: Whales roam throughout all of the world’s oceans, communicating with complex and mysterious sounds.…

Sea turtles are among the most extraordinary, charismatic and fascinating creatures, and are some of the world’s greatest nomads, sometimes navigating thousands of miles between feeding and nesting grounds. They are long-lived animals, having a complex life history, low reproductive capacity due to high juvenile mortality rates, and they travel long distances and thus encounter many fishing operations, making them vulnerable to overexploitation and fishing mortality (Spotila, 2004). Five…

Box turtles are a North turtle, there scientific name is terrapene carolina. Box turtles hibernate in the winter and mate during the spring. Box turtle can curl up inside their shell and hide or sleep. But, the box turtle has been put on the endangered species list because of predators, humans and the environment. One reason the box turtle is endangered is because of its predators. The box turtle has many predators like skunks, foxes, and more. Some of the predators like to dig up the nest and…

(qtd. in “apna talks”). Despite facing humans animals are still surviving us today and continue to live on. One animal that has proven to survive the human race is the sea turtles. According to the (Washington Post) more than half of the sea turtles on earth have swallowed some type of plastic. The article goes on to say that sea turtles get the plastic confused with jellyfish. They get it confused because from down below it looks like jellyfish floating up above. In fact, (Washington Post)…

Loggerhead sea turtles, like other animals, were not always on the verge of extinction. By morphing the Earth’s environment, human actions have allowed extinction to become a major issue. Animals, nowadays, go extinct because of humanity’s irresponsible actions, such as pollution and deforestation. While there has been an increase in awareness, the “management actions and their evaluation for sea turtles are still frequently hindered by lack of key data on turtle biology, human–turtle…

I strongly believe that wildlife crossings for turtles and tortoises should be built more frequently on main roads. The reasons I believe this are that it is not only dangerous to the animals to not have these wildlife crossings but the driver as well, I will discuss these in more depth in this passage. One reason to have wildlife crossings is that is can be dangerous to the animals if you don’t have them. If you don’t put the tunnels or bridge then the animals have no way across the road…

stated above, some people go through the sand dunes but they do not go through the protected area. If a nest is noticed through the sand dunes, then a smaller protective netting will be places are the Hooded Plovers nest. Volunteering groups such as Sea Shepard are helping clean the sand dunes by removing any rubbish that people have left while walking through the sand dunes. They also eradicate plants that aren’t wanted in the sand dunes by the council, they also plant some new plants.…

The Wood Turtle is becoming endangered because of habitats change. Also I’m going to tell you more about their habitats and facts about their diet and their behavior. The wood turtle range extends from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick south to Rockingham County, Virginia (Buhrmann and Mitchell 1989), and west to southern Quebec, and more. The Wood Turtle always found in close association with water, nut the degree of association varies geographically. Hardly (1991) reported Wood turtle in…

Are Saving Sea Turtles By: Priya Lokhnauth Turtles have been around for 220 million years. But now they are starting to become extinct. If we don’t fix this, then future generations will not be able to see this amazing sea creature. Rescue Teams help turtles and save turtles but some people kill and eat turtles. Rescue Teams are determined to save sea turtles. Volunteers are now blooming to make more teams. Rescue teams are also searching for turtles that…

SAVE THE SEA TURTLES Nearly all species of marine turtles are endangered and the ones not endangered are considered threatened, according to WWF®. All sea turtles found in U.S. waters are federally listed as endangered or threatened. Today, thousands of young turtles hatch and begin their journey from the southeast, United States’ coast to the Atlantic Ocean. Today, only one-thousand in every ten-thousand sea turtles survive into adulthood. They are slaughtered for their eggs, meat, skin, and…