{"id":583,"date":"2024-04-12T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careerxposure.net\/?p=583"},"modified":"2024-04-16T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T17:14:41","slug":"4-ways-you-can-help-save-sea-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careerxposure.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/4-ways-you-can-help-save-sea-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways You Can Help Save Sea Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"
What is it about sea turtles that makes them so endearing? It is their size? Their age? Their gracefulness in the water? All of these characteristics add to our fascination with these gentle sea creatures, but, additionally, I believe it’s that they\u2019re critical to the health of the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n
Sea turtles help maintain productive coral reef ecosystems and transport essential nutrients from the oceans to beaches and coastal dunes. Their eggs provide key nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium that soak into beach dune ecosystems, fueling plant growth that helps prevent shoreline erosion and provides food for plant-eating shore animals.<\/p>\n
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Leatherback sea turtles devour jellyfish, which is important because jellyfish hunt fish eggs and larvae, impeding the recovery of fish stocks. Meanwhile, loggerheads feast on hard-shelled critters like crustaceans. In breaking their shells, the turtles increase the rate at which the shells disintegrate, increasing the rate of nutrient recycling in the ocean ecosystems.<\/p>\n
Sea turtles also provide habitat to a variety of marine animals. The barnacles and algae that live on sea turtles’s shells provide meals for small fish and shrimp.<\/p>\n
You get the picture. Sea turtles are the good guys, stewards of Mother Earth for more than 200 million years, pre-dating even the dinosaurs. But now, sea turtles are fighting to survive. Pollution and overconsumption are causing them to decline at a rate never seen before, according to the Sea Turtle Conservancy<\/a>, the world\u2019s oldest sea turtle research and conservation group.<\/p>\n