The Green sea turtle is endangered due to many facts. Hunting is one of the main issues. It’s shell is used to make jewelry and ornaments. The turtles skin is used to make small leather items and then sold to others. Their meat and eggs are both hunted to be eaten. The Green sea turtles’ meat is actually the main part of turtle soup. Turtle soup was very popular around the late- nineteenth century. There were many factories in the U.S. that made and exported it. The sea turtles fat is also used to make oil. when the oil was fresh it could be used as cooking oil, but if stored, it would be used as oil leather, a lubricant, or burnt for heating.
There is a law, Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, this prohibits the injuring, killing, or harassing of any endangered animal, yet there is illegal killing. Another cause for the endangerment of these sea turtles are the accidental incidents where turtles become trapped in fishing gear. Many commercial shrimp fishers use nets that trap and kill more than 10,000 sea turtles each year. There is a solution for this. There is a law that requires shrimp fishers to install a device that keeps turtles out of nets. It is call the Turtle Excluder Device.
Pollution is another issue that these endangered animals encounter. Trash and plastic may be seen as food for the turtle, so after being consumed there are many issues that could arrive. The trash might clog the turtles’ stomach, slowly starving it. Or, it could release toxic chemicals, also killing the sea turtle. Sea turtle nesting beaches are slowly becoming lost because of coastal development. The noise, lights, and commotion an disrupt this cycle for a sea turtle.
There are many foundations that are now trying to help sea turtles. They are making sea turtle watch groups, sanctuaries, hospitals, etc. There are many issues, but many new innovative ideas on how to help these animals have surfaced.
There is a law, Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, this prohibits the injuring, killing, or harassing of any endangered animal, yet there is illegal killing. Another cause for the endangerment of these sea turtles are the accidental incidents where turtles become trapped in fishing gear. Many commercial shrimp fishers use nets that trap and kill more than 10,000 sea turtles each year. There is a solution for this. There is a law that requires shrimp fishers to install a device that keeps turtles out of nets. It is call the Turtle Excluder Device.
Pollution is another issue that these endangered animals encounter. Trash and plastic may be seen as food for the turtle, so after being consumed there are many issues that could arrive. The trash might clog the turtles’ stomach, slowly starving it. Or, it could release toxic chemicals, also killing the sea turtle. Sea turtle nesting beaches are slowly becoming lost because of coastal development. The noise, lights, and commotion an disrupt this cycle for a sea turtle.
There are many foundations that are now trying to help sea turtles. They are making sea turtle watch groups, sanctuaries, hospitals, etc. There are many issues, but many new innovative ideas on how to help these animals have surfaced.