Hurricanes Cap off Bad Year for Turtles

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Ri-Na Park
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In the article, “Hurricanes Cap off Bad Year for Turtles,” from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the author mentions that half of ‘sea turtle nests’ were destroyed by summer hurricanes in Florida in 2004. Moreover, the author says that the number of turtle’s nests is decreasing between 36 percent and 38 percent in the USA country every year, and also this happening in Florida. According to Mote Marine Laboratory sea turtle research in Florida, a cause of the decreasing of the sea turtle was the weather in 2004. However, there are also other problems such as the quality of the water, tide embankments, ‘other man-made structures’, fishermen killing them carelessly, and people stealing their eggs from their nests.
To begin with, now a lot of species are placed in a crisis of extermination because of environment problems. This study says that the number of turtles is decreasing every year because the temperature of the water is getting warmer and people eat the eggs of turtle, the construction of building near sea and the carelessness of people.
The decline of turtles is mainly caused by of environmental problems and humans. For example, when people are at the beach, they throw away a lot of trash. Also, people construct buildings in the sea. For these reasons there are no longer homes for the turtles. In addition, people eat turtles. On the other hand, Hurricanes are not the main reason. Because hurricanes always happen annually. Therefore, we should think about the way to preserve turtles, so as not to make them to become extinct.
Consequently, if the turtles become extinct, it will affect the ecosystem. Therefore, if the ecosystem is destroyed, people will have some troubles from this. In my opinion, we need to try to preserve the ecosystem before we get into trouble.

Reference
Bayles, T. (2004, Nov 25), Hurricanes cap off bad year for turtles, retrieved January 27, 2005 from http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=c10f1365d558fb63d2cf0c001746bd7e&_docnum=11&wchp=dGLbVtb-zSkVA&_md5=3966ee26f2f2200b5728b8fed39a8f3c