TURTLES TO THE RESCUE!!!

     Since the day we were born, we were taken care of Mother Earth. All the materials and basic needs we need were from Earth. However, as time passes, many people are taking our Earth for granted. Everything from the land, to the waters and up to the skies is now getting affected. How are we going to help them?

     Hello once again, READERS! Today, we will talk to you about the information we gathered regarding the marine turtles and how we can help, but before that, let us start off with something we always do, yeah; you’re RIGHT, with a QUOTE!

 

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble... (BlaisePascal).”

 

     Every little thing we do can cause MAJOR problems, without us knowing it. And remember the thing about plastic bags? It causes death to turtles (How MAJOR is that?). SO, next time, think before you act. Be open-minded and think of as many EFFECTS as possible, then after that, weigh it, which has more advantages? NOBODY can tell, except for YOU. TO wrap it all up, It’s somehow ALL up to YOU.       

WEIGH IT. BE A WAGER.

 

     And now, let us continue with the importance of the marine turtles. If the marine turtles were to be extinct, some of the marine animals, like the plankton, will be overpopulated because they will have fewer predators. Also, the animals that eat marine turtles would have less food which may cause imbalance in the ecological system of marine life.

     One of the top enemies of marine turtles is global warming. As you well know, global warming is when the water rises and covers a big track of land because of the temperature of the Earth rising. If this were to happen, the turtles won’t have any place to lay their eggs because the beaches would likely be covered by water. Global warming is also the process when the earth heats up (the temperature rises).  It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, which increases the temperature.  This hurts many people, animals (Like the MARINE turtles), and plants.  Many of them cannot take the change, so they die (HOW SAD :(). Rising of the temperature is also the cause of sea level rise from the melting of polar ice and that is already contributing to the loss of beach and sea turtle nesting habitat.  Weather extremes, also linked to climate change, mean more frequent and severe storms which alter nesting beaches, causing beach erosion or flooding to the sea turtle nests (WOW, THAT’S A LOT).  

     

     Increasing temperatures also cause hotter sands which results in decreased hatching rates or complete nest failure. And there’s more (WHAT!!!), it also affects hatchlings by altering natural sex ratios, with hotter temperature producing more female hatchlings.

    

     Actually, there are lots more BAD effects of global warming to the marine turtles (SAD FACT). However, let’s just stick to this because some of you might faint (Just joking… but seriously). And do you want to know what the major contributors of GLOBAL WARMING are? ANSWER: WELL, DUH… OK, we’ll show you… Why don’t you STOP for a while and GRAB any MIRROR then LOOK… Is IT obvious now? Well, for the sake of some people who don’t get it… HERE”S THE ANSWER…

YOU!!!

 

     ANOTHER SAD FACT UP THERE… but, do you want to change from the KILLER to the SAVER? Well here are some things that we, students, can do to help…    

      

     As students, we can conserve marine turtles by causing less pollution, reporting people who kill marine turtles for money, and to inform people to try and not cause global warming or we can be GOOD examples because you have to start off with changing yourself before changing the world, with leads us to another QUOTE (YEHEY, 2 Quotes in a ROW!!!):

 

     I don’t think that needs more explaining to do. The quote speaks for itself.

      

     Besides those mentioned above, we can also join organizations that help in conserving marine turtles, like the Pawikan Conservation Center! We should also start practicing the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) to help lessen the cause of global warming EVERYDAY! 

REDUCE the use of electricity!

REUSE old SHOES!!!

RECYCLE OLD NEWSPAPERS!

GO TO the Pawikan Conservation Center.

      

     TO end this post, we must end it with a BANG (You know what we mean)! But, we think we don’t need the summarizing because the first QUOTE says it all! Once again, thank you for tuning in and we hope that what you learned from us will stick in your minds and hearts! BYE!