Life History

Turtles are highly sensitive to the earths magnetic field and use it to navigate around. Turtles are known to live up to 80 years old. Their numbers use to range in the thousands but now thanks to humans, trash, egghunting, and turtle hunting, they are now in the hundreds.

Kinds of turtles

There are 7 different kinds of sea turtles.

1.Green sea Turtle

2.Loggerhead

3.Australian Flatback

4.Leatherback

5.Olive Ridley

6.Hawksbill

7.Kemp's Ridley

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Dangers to Turtles

Nets used in fishing and shimp trawling have been known to kill sea turtles accidentally. Other things that are big threats to turtles are pollution, global warming, coastal development, destruction of nesting sites, and fisheries impacts.

Why Sea Turtles are endangered

When turtles go out to lay there eggs, they are at a disadvantage because they are on land. After the hatchlings hatch they make a run for the ocean. Only about 5% of the sea turtles that hatch make it to the sea. The rest of them are either eaten by seagulls or they just dont make it to the sea. Even some of the ones that make it to the sea die in the sea after they make it there because of the strong currents and the waves of the sea. Remember these turtles are not used to being in water they were just born seconds ago.

 

Where turtles live

Sea turtles are found in all of the world's oceans except the Arctic Ocean. Some species even travel between oceans. Green sea turtles are usually found in the pacific ocean due to the warm waters. Loggerheads are found in the pacific or the atlantic. Flatback sea turtles can be found in the northern Australian waters. Hawksbill turtles can be found in Atlantic, Pacific, and the Indian Oceans.

Recources

Wikipedia

Enangered species: Sea Turtle

Defenders of Wildlife

Sea Turtles

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