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Loggerhead Sea Turtles Becoming Extinct
According to a 2009 review by the National Marine Fisheries Service, there are nine discrete loggerhead populations that are existing in the world today. The populations existing are, two in the Pacific Ocean, three in the Indian Ocean, four in the Atlantic Ocean/ Mediterranean Sea. However, seven of the nine populations were found to be “at risk of extinction.” The report also said that the loggerhead populations have the potential for severe decline in the future.
http://marine-conservation.suite101.com/article.cfm/loggerhead_sea_turtles_in_danger_of_extinction
http://marine-conservation.suite101.com/article.cfm/loggerhead_sea_turtles_in_danger_of_extinction
Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica.
In Playa Grande, Costa Rica it was a wonderful resort of the Leatherback Sea Turtle National Park, where there were nightly turtle tours and a sea turtle museum. However, the environment has become hazardous from all of the warm temperatures caused by global warming and has diminished the turtle population away. With the extinction of the turtles, Playa Grande’s museum was a banded three years ago. Before scientists found that global warming wiping out the population of the turtles they believe that beach development has been a problem such as drift fishing and the eating of the turtle eggs. The turtles feed on the reef, but due to global warming they are dying.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/earth/14turtles.html?_r=1
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/earth/14turtles.html?_r=1
I found it interesting that the species is going instinct even though the populations of the species are spread out. You would think being spread out would help them survive. Its sad that the turtles best environment was abandoned and ruined by warming. Human presence has been harmful to the turtles and we should find a way to help stop this exctinction!
ReplyDeleteThere should be habitats for these turtles to save them from exctinction. If people are aware of this occuring problem then why is nothing being done about this? The turtles are very peaceful and interesting to the Earth and it would be shameful if such an animal would die away...
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. It is horrible to hear that such non harmless animals are being harmed by us humans. They need somewhere to live where that can't get hurt!
ReplyDeleteWe as humans are the highest on the food chain and in natures circle we are supposed to dominate in some ways, but there are ways that we could limit our destruction.
ReplyDeleteThere are ways we can limit our destruction and help the lower food chain. It, in my opinion, is our duty to protect and help the less fortunate of animals because in a way we have caused all of their harm by the living standards we have.
ReplyDeleteVery true. I think that when the time comes for the birth of the baby turtles no one should be allowed on the beaches after dark. If people should disobey this then they should get fined! So that we can keep the turtles safe from human distruction.
ReplyDeleteLike i said i b elieve that hunting for food is ok, but hunting for money, and the hunting of endangered animals is selfish not ok. The simple fines we have right now arent working. We need to step up our enforcement of it.
ReplyDeleteBut still why would you want to hunt these innocent creatures they dont harm us, why should we harm them whether it is bothering their habitat or kill them. Why is hunting them oh k? Why would you want to eat them as food? The law enforcement does need to step up the enforcement.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we need to step up our enforcement of this and totally ban the hunting of the turtle. They do nothing to harm our environment, any other animals, or us. So, why would we hunt them?! I hope we can find a way to save them and end all of this terror!
ReplyDeletePeople just hunt them for the heck of it and it needs to stop because I have never heard of one of these turtles harming any human what so ever!
ReplyDeleteExtinction is a natural process...many species have become extincted in the past with no interaction with humans (ex: dinosaurs). However,it seems to me that the rate of extinctions across the board (with many animals) is rising...Do you think this is true? Or do you think that we have become a true technological society...in which information is readily available? In other words, has the extiniction of species really increased or are we just more aware of it?
ReplyDeleteTo me, I think that extinction of animals are becoming more extinct and that we are now becoming more aware of it, which we needed to before.
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